dbfpy - cannot store new record

[Ethan Furman]

Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> Here is the next problem. For boolean/logical fields, I can set their 
> value to True/False easily. However, setting NULL seems impossible:
> 
> rec = tbl.newRecord()
> rec["SOMEFIELD1"] = True # Works fine
> rec["SOMEFIELD2"] = False # Works fine
> rec["SOMEFIELD3"] = None # Will store False
> rec["SOMEFIELD3"] = 0 # Will store False
> rec["SOMEFIELD3"] = "" # Will store False
> rec["SOMEFIELD3"] = chr(32) # Will store False
> rec["SOMEFIELD3"] = chr(0) # Will store False
> rec.store()
> 
> Strange thing: if I do not set the value of a numeric field, it becomes 
> NULL. The same thing I cannot do for logical fields: if I do not set the 
> value of a logical field, it becomes an invalid value, denoted with a 
> question mark.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Laszlo
> 


Not sure if this would help, but you might try

http://groups.google.com/group/python-dbase

At this point, the only data types allowed to be Null are dates and 
times, everything else is coerced to Pythons idea of nothing if not set 
(strings are '', numerics are 0, etc -- again, the only exception being 
dates and times which, IIRC, default to the moment of record creation).

Hope this helps.

~Ethan~