converting "None"(python) to "" (Stata).

[Luis Pecht]

Hi ,

manipulating a list in python I ended up with the following tuple, which I need to send to stata default frame

('47313362', None) where None means missing in python parlance.

. clear all
. gen a=""
. gen b=""
. set obs 1
Number of observations (_N) was 0, now 1.

. python
----------------------------------------------- python (type end to exit) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> from sfi import Data
>>> Data.store(['a','b'],None,('47313362', None))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Program Files\Stata17\ado\base\py\sfi.py", line 1432, in store
    return _stp._st_storedata(vars, obss, val, svar)
TypeError: failed to store the string value in the current Stata dataset
r(7102);
>>> end
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

. list

     +--------------+
     |        a   b |
     |--------------|
  1. | 47313362     |
     +--------------+

So, Sfi library is not correctly converting "None"(python) to "" (Stata).

Does anyone know how to handle it?

thanks