It's a requirement of memcached; the incr command in the underlying protocol operates on a string it treats as an ASCII representation of an integer.
I believe memcache stores everything as a string, although the library has some magic in it to allow you to store any datatype it can pickle. On Jun 8, 1:26 pm, Ethan Post <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using the code found here. > > http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/sharding_counters.html > > Upon using this I noticed that it would return an int the first time and a > str the second. Appears to be the way the value is being stored in memcache. > I change the line below and works as expected now. > > # memcache.add(name, str(total), 60) > memcache.add(name, total, 60) > > Am I missing something here? Is there a reason str(total) would be preferred > over total? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
