[Zope] None Object and None String

[Andy Dustman]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:51:09 -0500 (EST), Asad Habib
<ahabib at engin.umich.edu> wrote:
> I have a Zope session variable that is set to None. When I update my MySQL
> database and set the value of one of my fields to the value of this
> session variable, the value is set to the string 'None'. Anyone
> encountered a similar problem? I would think that the None object would
> translate to the NULL database constant and not the string with value
> 'None'. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

You are correct that a Python None should be written to the database
as NULL, and vice versa. I can only conclude that something in your
application is converting None to 'None' (i.e. str(None)). If you are
getting it out of a session variable, this seems likely.
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