On Thursday, February 24, 2011 01:32:11 am Tom Evans wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Lee Hinde <leehi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Except, now the data that's in the database for the username field > > goes from looking like this: > > leehinde > > to this > > (u'leehinde',) > > > > I'd like it to be 'leehinde' again > > so, clearly objects.create is more clever than my pure post. But I'm > > not sure where in the food chain I should be interceding.. > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/unicode/#general-string-handling > > """ > In most cases when Django is dealing with strings, it will convert > them to Unicode strings before doing anything else. So, as a general > rule, if you pass in a bytestring, be prepared to receive a Unicode > string back in the result. > """ > > Be prepared :) > > Cheers > > Tom
But that doesn't explain the tuple form, (u'', ) of the return value. That's what got me. Mike -- Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.