On Aug 6, 2007, at 8:29 AM, malkarouri wrote:
> > Hi everyone, > > I am a newbie and I must be overlooking a simple thing here. But how > do I typecast a string to the type needed by a mapped class, which is > identified at run time? > > I have a class, > > class Record(object): > pass > > which I map to one of different tables identified at run time. I get > strings like this > > col, val = raw_input(), raw_input() > > (my actual application uses HTML form, but this was for testing) which > I try to use to insert a new record, like: > > rec = Record() > setattr(rec, col, val) > > This works if col is a string (the column subclassing SQLAlchemy's > String) but not otherwise. I can identify the type of the column as > > coltype = rec.c[col].type > > I probably can write a big if elif else to identify the type and do > the typecasting. e.g.: > > if isinstance(coltype, Integer): > val = int(val) > > but is there a canonical solution already there? > for parsing HTML form data into Python objects most people use FormEncode: http://formencode.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
