change a value to NULL?

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Oct 5 12:35:05 EDT 2005


Brett Hoerner wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean, really, do you need an official Python
> "Null" value? Try None?
> 
> In [6]: myCells = ['Mary', 'Bob', None, 'Joe']
> 
> In [7]: for cell in myCells:
>    ...:     if cell:
>    ...:         print cell
>    ...:     else:
>    ...:         print "NULL VALUE"
>    ...:
> Mary
> Bob
> NULL VALUE
> Joe
> 
> --
> 
> As far as having a Null value to put into the DB, most (SQL) DB's I've
> used have a specific SQL command like "INSERT INTO ROW VALUE NULL()",
> kind of like the SQL DATE(), etc.  I'm really rusty on my syntax etc
> right now btw so don't copy and paste that. :P
> 
And besides that, Excel is a spreadsheet not a database :-)

regards
  Steve
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