"John Salerno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > John Machin wrote: > >> Here in Austraila, (I expect this is common to most countries), there >> are people who are utterly clueless about elementary data model rules, >> like identification "numbers" should be kept as strings. > > Do you mean that ID numbers that serve as a primary key in a database > should also be strings?
If you mean user-entered data like social security, phone, account, part, or postal code 'numbers' -- as opposed to internal db-generated numbers that the user never sees -- this I would presume 'yes'. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
