Quick questions about globals and database connections
Jussi Piitulainen
jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi
Thu Apr 6 10:53:15 EDT 2017
DFS writes:
> On 4/5/2017 10:52 PM, Dan Sommers wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 22:00:46 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> I have a simple hard-coded check in place before even trying to connect:
>>>
>>> if dbtype not in ('sqlite postgres'):
>>> print "db type must be sqlite or postgres"
>>> exit()
>>
>> That's not doing what you think it is.
>>
>> Hint: What is ('sqlite postgres')?
>
> ?
>
> dbtype is a string, and the check works perfectly. No typos make it
> past the guard.
"lite post" in "sqlite postgres"
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