Hi to all, I have functions defined in an xml-rpc server. Some functions query to a Postgres database (using adodb) and return its recordset. So, if some xml-rpc client runs the mentioned function, it will retrieve the recordset. The problem is that if a retrieved field has the Null value or the Date value (DateTime Database format), then, the retrieved recordset in the python program will have the 'None' value or the DateTime type object value.
xml-rpc isn't able to accept any type of value, so I have to solve it. I can replace all None values with the string 'Null', there's no problem, but I can't detect the DateTime type object I retrieve from the database. I have something like this: def xmlrpc_function(): conn = adodb.NewADOConnection('postgres') conn.Connect(host,user,password,database) rs = conn.Exec("select * from table") result = [] i = 0 while not rs.EOF: row = rs.GetRowAssoc(False) for key, value in row.items(): if value==None: row[key]='Null' result.append(row) i = i + 1 rs.MoveNext() rs.Close() print result return result The problem here is that if row[key] == <type 'DateTime' object etc...>, then I don't know what to do for detect it and make the appropriate change to string. Console output: [{'name': 'Null', 'date': <DateTime object for '2005-09-01 00:00:00.00' at 1515f60>}] If you consult the python manual, you'll see that there's no 'DateTime' type object, so I can't do something like: if value==DateTimeType: ... I only need to know which type of data is a field for make the change according to what can I pass through the xml-rpc. Any help? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list