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Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell?

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Subject Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell?
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:22 PM,  <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>> Once you switch to Python 3 and Phoenix you have to modify this
>> slightly, e.g. by adding this to the top of your code:
>>
>> try:
>>     basestring
>> except:
>>     basestring = (bytes,str)
>>
> Everything else is 3 compatible so moving should be fairly painless
> if/when phoenix becomes available.

Small point: Even for code as small as this, I would be inclined to
catch only the one exception you care about - in this case, NameError.
I try to avoid having a bare except clause anywhere other than a "log
and continue" or "react and reraise" kind of situation.

ChrisA

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What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? cl@isbd.net - 2016-02-07 11:19 +0000
  Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-07 22:56 +1100
    Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? cl@isbd.net - 2016-02-07 12:42 +0000
      Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-08 00:11 +1100
        Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? cl@isbd.net - 2016-02-07 13:59 +0000
  Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? Dietmar Schwertberger <maillist@schwertberger.de> - 2016-02-07 16:06 +0100
    Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? cl@isbd.net - 2016-02-08 10:22 +0000
      Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-08 21:57 +1100
  Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2016-02-07 19:22 +0100
    Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? cl@isbd.net - 2016-02-08 10:42 +0000
      Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-08 21:55 +1100
      Re: What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell? Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2016-02-08 16:00 +0100

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