GAE is converting Integers to Longs and len() breaks

[davedigerati]

My app is working locally fine with a field defined as

    Field('Q2V','integer'),

then in the controller I have been able to 

    len(Q2V)

but after upload to Google App Engine I am tripping with

    object of type 'long' has no len()

I've been abel to discover that apparently GAE will map Integers to Longs for python- um, ok, so how can I measure the length then? Has anyone run into this and solved it?

[Jonathan Lundell]

Python integers don't have len either. What are you trying to do?

[David Gawlowski]

Shoot, thanks, you're right, that field was a string and I changed it to do math on elsewhere...

Do you know how to take the far right number of a two digit number?  Will something like field[-1] work like it does on strings?

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[Jonathan Lundell]

On 17 Aug 2013, at 1:40 PM, David Gawlowski <hyp...@gmail.com> wrote:

Shoot, thanks, you're right, that field was a string and I changed it to do math on elsewhere...

Do you know how to take the far right number of a two digit number?  Will something like field[-1] work like it does on strings?

You can always do len(str(thing)), or str(thing)[-1] (though thing % 10 might be closer to what you want).