I've already ask for this and the answer (in this group) from a Googler is now you can use both :
memcache.add(name, str(total), 60) or memcache.add(name, total, 60) On 8 juin, 21:09, Wooble <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
