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Fran García — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:35:44 -0000

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.

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