Are you releasing this code?
I am also interested in importing dbf to postgres using SA.
On Friday 21 July 2006 19:38, Brian Jarrett wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've been working on a script to import data from .dbf (dBase IV)
> files into postgres using SQLAlchemy. I'm having issues with
> importing a table that has "memo" fields, getting an error: "can't
> escape non-string object" when trying to insert() a dictionary with
> the data in it.
>
> This script has worked with other tables, so I'm not sure what's
> wrong. I'm using mxODBC on windows to access an ODBC DSN I set up to
> handle the .dbf files. I've created the following dictionary to map
> mxODBC description types to SQLAlchemy types:
>
> typedict = {'mxODBC':{1: String, #'CHAR',
> 2: Numeric, #'NUMERIC',
> 3: Numeric, #'DECIMAL',
> 4: Integer, #'INTEGER',
> 5: Integer, #'SMALLINT',
> 6: Numeric, #'FLOAT',
> 7: Numeric, #'REAL',
> 8: Numeric(20,2), #'DOUBLE',
> 9: Date, #'DATE',
> 10: Time, #'TIME',
> 11: DateTime, #'TIMESTAMP',
> 12: String, #'VARCHAR',
> 91: Date, #'TYPE_DATE',
> 92: Time, #'TYPE_TIME',
> 93: DateTime, #'TYPE_TIMESTAMP',
> -1: Binary, #String, #'LONGVARCHAR',
> -10: String, #'WCHAR_LONGVARCHAR',
> -9: String, #'WCHAR_VARCHAR',
> -8: String, #'WCHAR',
> -7: Boolean, #'BIT',
> -6: Integer, #'TINYINT',
> -5: Integer, #'BIGINT',
> -4: Binary, #'LONGVARBINARY',
> -3: Binary, #'VARBINARY',
> -2: Binary}, #'BINARY'
>
> ...so when I get a cursortype of -1 (LONGVARCHAR) I'm creating a
> table that is using SQLAlchemy's Binary type. When doing the insert,
> then, I end up with the insert() trying to use data like this:
>
> 'fields': <psycopg2._psycopg.Binary object at 0x095F2728>
>
> The reason I went with Binary in the first place was because I
> couldn't use String and have a really large number for it's size (IIRC
> it's limited to 255).
>
> When doing the insert(), I'm just passing it a dictionary, and the
> dictionary data is all unicode.
>
> Any ideas on where I should look?
>
> Brian
>
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