dyork wrote: > Thanks Gabriel, but when I said "round trip" I really did mean: convert all > the way to string and all the way back again, so your kind advice is not all > that helpful. I need string to get to a non-Python object or a Web page.
Then you need two adaptation layers: one between your app and the DB (which you already have) and one between your app and the web page or other user interface. Here's the web adaptation layer I use: http://projects.amor.org/misc/browser/alamode.py Have a look at the coerce_in and coerce_out functions. Robert Brewer System Architect Amor Ministries [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list