On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:52 PM, DenesL <[email protected]> wrote:

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> 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...


The Python Cookbook says a bit about why this is not a good idea for
production sites....  too many special cases, I think...



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> Denes
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