Database experiences in Python: Good or Bad?
Eric Brunel
eric.brunel at pragmadev.com
Tue Aug 6 04:53:50 EDT 2002
Roy Smith wrote:
[snip]
> Operationally, the only real
> annoyance I found was that (IIRC), empty strings in the database would
> come back as None instead of as "" (I consider this a bug).
It is. In Oracle... Oracle considers empty strings as NULL values, which is
simply stupid. When you do a select, there's no means to distinguish an
empty string from a NULL (represented as None in Python). So the oracledb
module is just consistent with the way Oracle manages strings...
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