haven't studied the code, but during a form submit (which is the most frequent trigger of validation), all the values are strings so there is no need to cast them. i could come up with ways to break that flow but i don't know if they actually happen in practice.
- [web2py] validators.py > IS_IN_DB.__call__ > elif ... Carlos
- [web2py] Re: validators.py > IS_IN_DB.__call__ &... Carlos
- [web2py] Re: validators.py > IS_IN_DB.__call... howesc
- [web2py] Re: validators.py > IS_IN_DB.__call__ &... pbreit
- [web2py] Re: validators.py > IS_IN_DB.__call... Carlos
- [web2py] Re: validators.py > IS_IN_DB.__... Massimo Di Pierro