problem with appending to a list, possibly mysqldb related

[John Salerno]

John Salerno wrote:
> John Purser wrote:
> 
>> I'd say you had a record with a null value for the namefirst field.
>> The join method don't like that.  
> 
> Wow, you're right! I tried this:
> 
> if x[0] and not x[0] == 'NULL':
> 
> and sure enough it works after that. (Not sure if that's the best way to 
> test, though. Just testing for NULL still produced the error, so I 
> guessed that some namefirst fields were actually blank.)

Just tried again with:

if x[0]:

and that worked, so I guess NULL isn't a string value.