Hello,
it does with this patch

Index: gluon/sql.py
===================================================================
--- gluon/sql.py        (revision 1441)
+++ gluon/sql.py        (working copy)
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@
             obj = obj.isoformat()[:10]
         else:
             obj = str(obj)
-    if not instance(obj,str):
+    if not isinstance(obj,str):
         obj = str(obj)
     try:
         obj.decode('utf-8')

Damn typos ;)

Thank you very much for your help!

Best regards


On Nov 19, 5:43 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> You are right. there is a problem. I assumed the datetime was
> datetime.datetime format and not a string.
> I am uploading a fix in trunk, please give it a try.
>
> On Nov 19, 8:57 am, Gabriele  Alberti <gabriele.albe...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > my model is ok.. I tried to debug a bit, dont know exactly what is
> > happening but you probably do:
> > what happens in sql_represent() method is that among the many "if
> > fieldtype == '<type>'" there is this code:
>
> >     elif isinstance(obj, str):
> >         try:
> >             obj.decode('utf-8')
> >         except:
> >             obj = obj.decode('latin1').encode('utf8')
>
> > which catches up my datetime field (dunno why), and as it is an "elif"
> > clause it ends up not being catched by the following
> > "elif fieldtype == 'datetime':" code, which fixes the to_date() issue.
>
> > Hope this helps understanding what is going on..
>
> > Regards,
>
> > G.
>
> > On Nov 19, 2:37 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > > I think something is wrong in your model. If a field is declared of
> > > type 'date' or 'datetime', web2py generates the SQL with the to_date
> > > (..) function. I think you may have incorrectly defined the Field
> > > ('timestamp') as a string. BTW. I do not think 'timestamp' is a valid
> > > field name since it is a reserved keyword.
>
> > > On Nov 19, 5:47 am, Gabriele  Alberti <gabriele.albe...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Hello web2py users,
> > > > I defined a table with one of the fields as datetime type, and when I
> > > > try to insert a raw it fails with this
>
> > > > ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input
> > > > string
>
> > > > with a raw query looking like this
>
> > > > INSERT INTO vals(timestamp, value, type, number) VALUES ('2009-09-07
> > > > 12:00:00', 24, 11, 1);
>
> > > > which works with a MySQL backend.
> > > > Googling a bit it turns out its a problem of datetime conversion in
> > > > oracle.
> > > > Im still investingating about this, but what I get so far is the
> > > > default Oracle DATE format is something weird (kind of YYYY-MM-DD, no
> > > > hour and so).
> > > > To fix the problem you can either do this to change it to our (python
> > > > datetime) format
>
> > > > alter session set NLS_DATE_FORMAT='<my_format>';
>
> > > > but this lasts just for this session, or use something like
>
> > > > INSERT INTO vals(timestamp, value, type, number) VALUES (to_date
> > > > ('2009-09-07 12:00:00', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss'), 24, 11, 1);
>
> > > > using the to_date() oracle function.
>
> > > > I did not yet try anything of this solutions, and anyway I guess we
> > > > need a web2py fix.. any other hint ?
>
> > > > Thanks,
>
>
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