sqlite3 adaptors mystery

[Mel]

Matej Cepl wrote:
> Thanks for your help, but plain-text strings is not what 
> I wanted. The boolean variables was what I was after. See this 
> modified version of the script:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import sqlite3
> def adapt_boolean(bol):
>      if bol:
>              return "True"
>      else:
>              return "False"
>  
> def convert_boolean(bolStr):
>      if str(bolStr) == "True":
>              return bool(True)
>      elif str(bolStr) == "False":
>              return bool(False)
>      else:
>              raise ValueError, "Unknown value of bool attribute 
> '%s'" % bolStr
>  
> sqlite3.register_adapter(bool,adapt_boolean)
> sqlite3.register_converter("boolean",convert_boolean)
> 
> db = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
> cur=db.cursor()
> cur.execute("create table test(p boolean)")
> p=False
> cur.execute("insert into test(p) values (?)", (p,))
> p=True
> cur.execute("insert into test(p) values (?)", (p,))
> cur.execute("select p from test")
> for (field,) in cur.fetchall():
>     print field,type(field)
> 
> The output here is:
> 
> [matej at viklef dumpBugzilla]$ python testAdaptors.py False <type 
> 'unicode'>
> True <type 'unicode'>
> [matej at viklef dumpBugzilla]$ 
> 
> I thought that converter is there for just exactly this -- that 
> I would get back bool values not strings.
> 
> Sorry for not being clear in the first run.

Sorry about the misunderstanding.  It seems you want

db = sqlite3.connect("test.db", detect_types=sqlite3.PARSE_DECLTYPES)

After this, the print shows

False <type 'bool'>
True <type 'bool'>


	Mel.