"Frank Millman" <fr...@chagford.com> writes: > ... > At present, I loop over a range of columns, comparing 'before' and 'after' > values, without worrying about their types. Strings are returned as str, > integers are returned as int, etc. Now I will have to check the type of each > column before deciding whether to cast to 'bytes'.
Of course, you could implement your own "equality" function ("my_equal") and replace "a == b" by "my_equal(a, b)". In "my_equal", you could encapsulate whatever logic is necessary for a reliable equality check. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list