#18 Problems with Non-Str-Strings

[George]

I'm converting some code from cx_Oracle to MSSQL via Adodbapi.

Some of the data has come from an XML file so is in "lxml.etree._ElementStringResult" variables. With cx_Oracle this wasn't a problem but Adodbapi crashes as it thinks it's an unknown variable type.

In my situation I've added

    try:
        import lxml
        typeMap[lxml.etree._ElementStringResult] = adc.adBSTR
    except:
        pass

To apibase.py to fix this but does having to do this go against Duck Typing?

[Vernon Cole]

I have added code to try introspecting the object itself when the type of the object is not recognized. It should work now if the object returns "True" to any of:

isinstance(d, StringTypes)

isinstance(d, number.Integral)

isinstance(d, number.Float)

Fixed in 2.6.1.0