Re: [PyIndexer] Notes on Docs and Testing

[Marcus C. <ma...@wr...>]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 at 12:37:11 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:

> Marcus Collins wrote:
> > 
> > probably most DBMS)? The database server returns the float as a string,
> > the database API converts it back to a float,
> 
> It does? why? that sucks :-S

The MySQL C API returns rows as an array of strings. See the typedefs
and prototypes in mysql.h...
 
I don't know the dark magic, but AFAIK in MySQLdb there's a 'converters' 
module (which you can override) which examines the column type reported
by the API and converts the string output to native Python objects.

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Cheers

-- Marcus