> > Most values tend to work, but only because the SQL string representation > happens to be the same as the Python representation. That may not apply to > some float values, bool, perhaps others. I had hoped the tools would have > solved those problems so I don't have to. In typed languages (Java, C#) > those things tend to just work.
Not true. There might be frameworks that aid this process - as there are for python (e.g. TurboGears validators), but especially when it comes to dates, even the larger ones like Struts for Java pretty much suck. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list