In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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?
Depends. If they are strictly internal, ints are fine. But if they interact with the outside world, they should be strings. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it." --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 1993 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
