On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> I suppose you could put down Kelvin as a last name and either Baron or >> Lord as a first name, but that'd just be cheating... > > > Or put NULL as the first name and have fun watching > the database break. > > http://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ > > Or perhaps even profit: > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3513652/The-cleverest-time-Man-gets-free-holidays-car-rentals-changing-surname-Null.html
NULL should be completely different from the string 'Null' (in any mixture of case). Failing that check means a failure in the front end, or in how things are checked for. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list