Checking each item in m.group()?

[Gilles Ganault]

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:49:11 -0700, Scott David Daniels
<Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote:
>(c, "NULL") is  a tuple; it is being indexed by the boolean "c == ''"
>Since False is 0, and True is 1, the expression picks out "NULL"
>exactly when c is the zero-length string.

Thanks Scott, and also to Peter above, and sorry for not having
answered earlier.

I'm having two problems: The first code doesn't strip the
double-quotes when the string is empty. IOW, "not empty" or NULL, but
not "NULL"

The second code hits "IndexError: list index out of range" because of
Yield() which I don't seem to be using correctly:

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	p = re.compile("^(\d+)\t(.*?)")
	for line in textlines:
		m = p.search(line)
		if m:
			sql = sql + 'INSERT INTO mytable (col1,col2) VALUES
("%s","%s");' % tuple ((c,"NULL")[c == ''] for c in m.groups())

	#cursor.execute(sql)
	connection.close(True)
	print sql
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import csv
import sqlite3 as sqlite

def records(infile):
	for row in csv.reader(infile):
	  #IndexError: list index out of range
	  #BAD yield row[0], row[1] or None
	  #BAD yield row[0] or None, row[1] or None

def main():
	db = sqlite.connect("test.sqlite")
	cursor = db.cursor()	

	#How to handle empty columns, ie. <TAB><TAB>?
	cursor.executemany("insert into mytable (col1,col2) values (?,?);",
records("test.sqlite"))
	
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
==========

Thank you.