Quick questions about globals and database connections

Dan Sommers dan at tombstonezero.net
Wed Apr 5 22:52:14 EDT 2017


On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 22:00:46 -0400, DFS wrote:

> I have a simple hard-coded check in place before even trying to connect:
> 
> if dbtype not in ('sqlite postgres'):
>    print "db type must be sqlite or postgres"
>    exit()

That's not doing what you think it is.

Hint:  What is ('sqlite postgres')?

> Good comments, Lt. Dan.  Thanks.

No problem.



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