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Python module for reading and writing DBF files. Originally it was created by Jeff Kunce and later maintained by Hans Fiby.

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• Aleksandr Smyshliaev
• Yaroslav Samchuk

[Fran García]

Bug: Reading (decoding) values ​​'' with dbfpy
Module: fields.py
Function: decodevalue()
Description:
When a DBF-file has the * (, **, ...) character in one of the fields, an error message appears

'invalid literal for int() with base 10: '***' '

I propose the following change to the decode function:

def decodeValue(self, value):
    """Return a number decoded from ``value``.

    If decimals is zero, value will be decoded as an integer;
    or as a float otherwise.

    Return:
        Return value is a int (long) or float instance.

    """
    value = value.strip(" \0")
    if "." in value:
        # a float (has decimal separator)
        return float(value)

    # NEW francisgg: * per whitespaces
    if "*" in value:
       value=value.replace('*', ' ')
       return value

    elif value:
        # must be an integer                
        return int(value)
    else:
        return 0

Finally, I am a beginner and I hope your opinion.