"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?
Nothing wrong with doing that - its not as if you are going to arithmetic with them - adding my id to yours is generally not very useful... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
