I use metakit (python bindings) in my app
(grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net). In some of my early code, I made
some dumb decisions about data-types and I want to change the property
types for some columns now. Specifically, I want to take a string
column and convert it into an integer column.
This would be easy if I just wanted to create a new column...
for r in vw:
r.new=int(r.old)
But I want the new column to have the same name as the old -- just a
new datatype.
Can anyone suggest an effecient way to do this?
I've tried to cook up something, but aside from being inefficient (I
used a dummy column to hold the data in the mean time), it didn't
work. Metakit seems to remember the original datatype for my column,
even when I request a view with the new datatype. The following code
raises a TypeError (Wrong type for String prop):
oldview = storage.getas('mydatabase[column:s]')
...
newview = storage.getas('mydatabase[column:I]')
for r in newview: r.column = 3
(the error was at r.column=3).
Also, on a somewhat related note, can anyone tell me how to delete a
column of data?
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
Tom
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