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Read FPT files

Cristian Sebastian Rocha — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:15:31 -0000

Hello,

I've been adding code to allow reading files FPT. Here I attached the diff. To use it you just have to start the Dbf object as follows:

table = dbf.Dbf (dbf_filename, fpt_file = open ('table.FPT'))

The only problem I can bring problem is if the file block size is different to 64. There needs to be altered set_ftp function.

exception decoding ^@ padded numeric field

Mario Frasca — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:12:11 -0000

we've got a dbf where numeric fields are padded with <NUL> characters. on these the library crashes:

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/dbfpy/fields.py", line 240, in decodeValue
# a float (has decimal separator)
ValueError: null byte in argument for float()

I would add this line just after stripping the value, before converting it to float/integer:
value = value.replace('\0', '')

Delete Fields

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:32:15 -0000

Not sure if anyone is working on this still, but it would be useful to be able to delete fields from a dbf file. I looked through the source files and only saw addFields and delete records methods...no delete fields.