thanks I'll use your code.  My python is very rusty and python3 has so many 
changes.johnfSent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
-------- Original message --------From: Ed Leafe <[email protected]> Date: 6/28/19 
 11:46 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: Dabo developers' list <[email protected]> Subject: 
Re: [dabo-dev] strange string as b('330') On Jun 28, 2019, at 12:30 PM, john 
fabiani <[email protected]> wrote:> > I often use dataSet's in memory.  Such 
as 'dataDS.execute("select * from dataset order by pkid")' where dataDS = an 
existing dataset.  The issue becomes that for some reason the query returns a 
value as "b('330')".  Therefore, strVal becomes "b(330')" this causes 
Decimal(strVal) to fail.  I added the code below and it works.> > I don't have 
a clue why or what is the root cause.  But I wonder if some change has occurred 
in sqlite for python3.  I think this maybe only fixing a symptom.Python3 uses 
bytes by default, and relies on the developer to handle the decoding. >         
if isinstance(strVal, bytes):>             strVal = strVal.decode("utf-8”)It 
might be better to write this as:        if isinstance(strVal, bytes):          
  strVal = strVal.decode(dabo.getEncoding())Other users may have a different 
default encoding for their locale.-- Ed 
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