No because not all databases support them thus would not be portable. Strings bust me UTF8 encoded.
Massimo On Feb 20, 8:13 pm, Miguel Goncalves <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > When I call the following code : > > import gluon.contrib.simplejson as json > > def create(): > ###http://..../create?fields=<fields in json> > va = dict( json.loads(request.vars.fields, encoding='ascii' ) > ) > return db.book.insert(**va) > > With the > url:http://localhost:8000/welcome/service/create?fields={"2brief_description":"ivre";, > "Author":"Pucette", "book_id":90} > > I get the error: > > db.book.insert(**va) > TypeError: insert() keywords must be strings > > Any way to make the insert function work with unicode strings? > this works perfectly if I do the following (convert the keywords to > ascii strings): > > vo = dict() > for k in va: > vo[str(k)] = va[k] > > return db.book.insert(**vo) > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
