[SQLObject] .get(int) vs. .get(string)

[Hendrik M. <he...@ma...>]

Hello everyone,

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>>> from Crop.Data.User import User
>>> u1 = User.get(1)
>>> u2 = User.get('1')
>>> u1 == u2
False
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Is this by design? I was expecting SQLObject to either return the same
object instance *or* raise an exception when passing the string.

Background: I'm currently using SQLObject with CherryPy (a Python web
application framework, www.cherrypy.org). CherryPy receives GET/POST
parameters as strings, so when I want to use them to fetch an SQLObject, I
have to convert them to ints first:

  u = User.get(int(id))

It's not much of a problem, but it's really hard to miss, since SQLObject
simply returns a different object representing the same data.

The User class is a simple SQLObject derived class with no "funky"
features.

Currently using SQLObject from SVN, revision 79.

Thanks,
Hendrik

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