[Zope-dev] SybaseDAv2 and identity columns

[Bill Anderson]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> Christopher Petrilli wrote:
...
> > We make this decision based on the precision and scale of the column, NOT fo
> > the returned value.  Anything that has a scale of >0 is a float.  If it's
> > scale is 0, then if the precision is greater than 9, we move to long
> > integers to store it.
> 
> Because we can use regular integers if the precision is less than 10.
> 
> If you need a string without the trailing 'L', then use the %d
> string format, as in '%d' % v.
> 
> Jim
> 
> P.S. Python 1.6 will not add the trailing 'L' character
>      when converting longs to strings, except when the repr built-in
>      function or operator is used. That will make this issue go away.


Thanks for the info. Makes things a bit easier.

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