[cx-oracle-users] Nulls returned as None and not as as "empty or zero lenght string"

[Chris D. <cdu...@ya...>]

All,

Is there anyway that Null values returned from a query can be an "empty or zero length string"
instead of None?

This may seem a strange request as it's easy to use type to test if a null has been returned as
None. However I've a performance critical app where I need to output "nothing" (zero length /
empty string) if the value is null. Hence at present I have to perform this "type test" on ALL
columns that don't have a "Not Null" constraint in the database which is quite an overhead when in
some cases I need to do it millions and sometimes billions of times.

Thanks,

Chris Dunscombe


		
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