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On 25 сент, 00:52, Leo Shklovskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to represent an Active Directory's user guid in Django. In
> AD, its a 128 bit integer that I can pull out with using the ldap
> library. When I access the guid, python treats it as a string with most
> of the characters escaped, so something like:
>
> "\xdd3\x9e0\xd9\xf4\x93B\x90\xdehDe\xd6\xbaq"
>
> I'm storing this in my model as a CharField:
>
> class Person(models.Model):
> ...
> uuid = models.CharField(maxlength=16, db_index=True, unique=True)
>
> So far so good, but when I try to create an initial data fixture that
> contains the uuid and run manage.py syncdb, I get an error:
>
> {
> "pk" : 1,
> "model" : "faces.Person",
> "fields" : {
> ...
> "uuid" : "\xdd3\x9e0\xd9\xf4\x93B\x90\xdehDe\xd6\xbaq",
> ...
> }
>
> }
>
> > manage.py syncdb
> ...
> Problem installing fixture: Invalid \escape: 'x' line 14 column 15
> ...
>
> Is this a known issue? Is it a bug in the parsing? Is there a better way
> to represent the guid in my model? (I know Python 2.5 had a uuid object,
> but I'm still on 2.4).
>
> --
> --Leo
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