going into sqlite3 as utf-8. I guess by default sqlite3 is converting
this to unicode since when I try to decode I get an attribute error
like this:
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'decode'
The code and data I am preparing is to work on postgres as well a
sqlite so there are a couple of things I could do. I could always
store any data as unicode to any db, or test the data to determine
whether it is a string or unicode type when it comes out of the
database so I can deal with this possibility without errors. I will
likely take the first option but I looking for a simple test to
determine my object type.
if I do:
type('maybe string or maybe unicode')
I get this:
<type 'unicode'>
I am looking for something that I can use in a comparison.
How do I get the type as a string for comparison so I can do something
like
if type(some_data) == 'unicode':
do some stuff
else:
do something else
Regards,
David
