From: "Greg" <sysman@techgroupinc.com> > Field3 and Field4 are usually NULL, but not always, so I want to capture > them as well. > > Any suggestions? Depends on what you want a "None" should be converted to. using str(Field3) will make it return 'None', which may be wrong. Then you can use (Field3 or ''), which will return '' when Field3 is none.