Turns out if you read to the bottom of the tutorial you find answers. Please disregard this mail, I found my answer.
:) On 4/10/12 10:41 AM, "Mucklow, Blaine (GE Energy)" <blaine.muck...@ge.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >I had a lot of success using Java+Hector, but was trying to migrate to >pycassa and was having some 'simple' issues. What I am trying to do is >create a column family where the following occurs: >KEY-> String ColumnName-> LongType ColumnValue-> DoubleType > >Basically this is time series data for an 'id'. I had no problems with >this in Hector but am struggling in pycassa. I have the following code >snippets: > >system.create_column_family(keyspace=keyspace,name=columnfamily,comparator >_type=BytesType) >system.close() >//Iterative loop to build my time series data >columns[long(ms_since_epoch)] = float(measurement) >//After loop >col_family.insert(key=id,columns=columns) > >I then get the following error: >TypeError: A str or unicode value was expected, but long was received >instead (1321574400) > >Any thoughts? > >Thanks, > >Blaine Mucklow
