On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Carl Karsten wrote: >>> >>> Given this little example, would you still not worry about trailing >>> whitespace? >> >> >> Oh yeah, that. >> >> --> "abc ".strip() >> 'abc' >> >> if rec.full_name.strip() == 'John Doe' >> >> Personally, I would leave it at that. >> >> half baked idea: If you want to add some code to hide that, add some >> sort of auto-strip to the driver so it drops the extra spaces. > > Heh, that's what I've been doing. It did two things for me: 1) made > equality checking easier; and 2) made boolean checks make sense. It has its > own problems though -- mainly that single character empty fields don't work > well: > > if rtyp in 'FMU': # is this Forwardable, Moved, or Undeliverable? > > ' ' gets stripped down to '', and '' is in every string, this doesn't work.
huh. yeah, its true. i'm kinda surprised. >>> '' in 'abc' True But this works: >>> '' in ['a','b','c'] False >>> 'b' in ['a','b','c'] True > > And yes, I could use a .strip() every time I have a field comparison, but I > have *lots* of them in my code, and it feels an awful lot like unnecessary > boiler plate. I know what you mean. My advice: 2 wads of code: the dbapi module and some wrapper to make it nicer to work with. > > Okay, I'll leave the default at str, and make Char, like Date, DateTime, and > Logical, be available options. > > ~Ethan~ > _______________________________________________ > DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig > -- Carl K _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
