On Mar 31, 6:58 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:40 PM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I do not think the CSV formatting belongs in the model. There may be
it was only a suggestion, it has to be tied to the field somehow

> > difference places in an app where importing is done suing different
> > conventions. And why for csv and not xml? etc.
then use it for all, call it field.import_filter, it is the developer
responsibility to set it if he/she does not want the default behavior
(e.g. convert null to None in csv imports).

>
> I agree w/ Massimo...
>
> Also, you can find "smart" date parsing strategies in Python Cookbook;  see
> python dateutil...
you are putting to much emphasis on the example, the functionality can
be anything you want/need: conversions, packing, data cleanup, etc. Of
course all can be done externally but why not allow an "inside web2py"
version too?.
Or I could we completely wrong...

Denes


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