[Zope-DB] Dealing with null values

[Paul Browning]

--On 25 April 2002 08:55 +0100 Paul Browning <paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk> 
wrote:

>
> I've got an Oracle table with some null values
> in one column. What's the best way of
> catching these? The Zope len function gives me:
>
> Error Type: TypeError
> Error Value: len() of unsized object
>

<blush>
The Oracle NVL function looks handy in this context ..... as described at
http://www.cse.bris.ac.uk/~ccmjs/zope_sql.htm#empty
</blush>

Paul

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