On 10/3/06, Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just downloaded it. I'm mostly interested in seeing how you manage > > to translate data from postgresql to the client program. I mean: how > > you recognize it's gis data and not just any blob... > > Because they are real types in PostgreSQL (one of the few backends out > there that allows for user-defined types) and not just blobs of data.
FYI, they are also defined types in MySQL as well: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/spatial-extensions.html By default these would be returned as strings by MySQLdb, but you can add support for them with a couple lines of Python code if you have a function that does the necessary conversion into a Python type. (If you know a good standard Python library that does this, I'll add support. I looked into this once and didn't find a clear answer.) -- This message has been scanned for memes and dangerous content by MindScanner, and is believed to be unclean. _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
