"he" won't be overriding or redefining booleans ... I can't see that as a
step forward for humanity.

The decision by web2py to use T or F for booleans in SQLite is interesting
...  I wonder why.


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Derek <sp1d...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yea, he should probably override the equality operator to allow F (not
> just 0 or False). :D
>
>
> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:53:24 AM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote:
>>
>> don't do that, please. If you're annoyed with web2py's defaults, you can
>> easily sublass the adapter and make your own adjustments.
>>
>> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 7:29:10 PM UTC+2, Derek wrote:
>>>
>>> Since you are using Python 2.x you can redefine 'False' to be 'F' if you
>>> wish, although I'm sure you'd have some side effects somewhere else in the
>>> system. In Python 3.x you can't do that.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 8:49:26 PM UTC-7, Tim Richardson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, 17 October 2013 14:29:17 UTC+11, Tim Richardson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is web2py 2.7.4, on Windows, python 2.7.5
>>>>>
>>>>> I have rows in an sqlite table with a boolean field. Currently all
>>>>> rows have this field set to 0 (via an update query in an sqlite console)
>>>>>
>>>>> When the table is defined in the web2py model as boolean, this query
>>>>> returns no rows:
>>>>>
>>>>>    query_rows = db(db.order_status.sent_order_**rcvd_email ==
>>>>> False).select()
>>>>>
>>>>> but if the table definition changes the field type to integer,
>>>>> the query works.
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems a bit weird. I thought I would have run into this problem
>>>>> earlier unless it is recent behaviour.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Ah. A bit of a gotcha perhaps. sqlite defines boolean as an integer
>>>> value (0 or 1) but web2py uses a 1 char 'T' or 'F'.
>>>>
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