[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # Print new list > print recordList > > >>>>[872L, 'ACTIVE', <DbiDate object at 011F6000>, <DbiDate object at >>>>00EA1428>, None, '1.0.0.0', None, None, None]
Read the Python library manual chapter 2. Read all of it, it's all very useful information, but take a particular look at str() and repr(). All Python object can be "viewed" in two standard ways, via the str() or repr() functions. In short, the str() stringification is typically to be more end-user friendly, while the repr() stringi- fication is more intended to properly identify exactly what kind of an object we see: what type it is, and often the value too. (Above, you don't see any reasonable value at all in the DbiDate objects, but for some reason that didn't seem to bother you as much as the suffixed L on the long ints.) When you just print a Python object x of some kind, i.e. print x it will be equivalent of print str(x) To see the other representation, use print repr(x) Python collections, such as lists, tuples and dicts, aren't really intended to be printed as is to end users. If recordList is a list, and there is a statement "print recordList", it's probable that it is intended as a diagnostic help to a programmer during development, rather than to an end user. So, it's rather clever to use the repr() stringification, so that it's clear exactly what we see, e.g. all strings are quoted, so you clearly see things as trailing spaces, can differentiate between tabs and sequences of spaces, and aren't confused by commas inside the strings. Also, for longs, you get a trailing L to indicate that this isn't simply a normal integer, but an arbitrarily long one. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
