[dbfpy-devel] [ dbfpy-Feature Requests-2796419 ] exception decoding ^@ padded numeric field

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Feature Requests item #2796419, was opened at 2009-05-25 15:12
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Mario Frasca (mfrasca)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: exception decoding ^@ padded numeric field

Initial Comment:
we've got a dbf where numeric fields are padded with <NUL> characters.  on these the library crashes:

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/dbfpy/fields.py", line 240, in decodeValue
    # a float (has decimal separator)
ValueError: null byte in argument for float()

I would add this line just after stripping the value, before converting it to float/integer:
  value = value.replace('\0', '')


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