On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Carsten Haese <carsten.ha...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Victor Subervi wrote: > > Well I've done that. What happens is the storeColNames registers the > > "Availability" field naturally enough; however, as I stated before, the > > getlist doesn't fetch anything because there is nothing to fetch! No > > such value is passed! > > Well, what does getlist return when the situation you're describing as > "getlist doesn't fetch anything" occurs? Does is raise an exception? > Does it return 0? Does it return None? Does it return an empty list? An > empty string? An empty tuple? Does it return False? Does it not return > at all and causes the universe to fall into a black hole? > It returns nothing. I believe I've stated that three times now. > > So, what I need to do is figure out a way to log > > the fact that no value is fetched. What I have currently, unfortunately, > > simply ignores the unfetchable value. As I stated before, I need to log > > the fact that no such value is obtained. Please...how do I do that?? > > Please be less vague. What part do you have a problem with? Checking > whether "no value is fetched" or "log the fact"? > No value is fetched because there is no value to fetch. I want to be able to log the fact that no value was fetched. How do I do that? Am I not being clear? Here, let me try again, as I began this thread with my first post. I thought it was so easy, so clear. If I use getfirst, I can set a default to log whether getfirst gets anything or not. I cannot do that with getlist. Is there a work-around? TIA, beno
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