[Sqlalchemy-tickets] Issue #3346: ellipses_string in langhelpers.py raises StatementError for non-string values (zzzeek/sqlalchemy)

[Sebastian E. <iss...@bi...>]

New issue 3346: ellipses_string in langhelpers.py raises StatementError for non-string values
https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/issue/3346/ellipses_string-in-langhelperspy-raises

Sebastian Elsner:


Using 1.0b4. If "value" is not a string, this will raise an exception, which results in a StatementError, when happening in a flush.

```
#!python

def ellipses_string(value, len_=25):
    if len(value) > len_:
        return "%s..." % value[0:len_]
    else:
        return value
```

using:


```
#!python

if len(str(value)) > len_:
```

instead, fixes the problem for me, though I do not know if this is a good way.