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4.3 Mapping for Basic Data Types

Fnorb currently supports all CORBA 2.0 data types. Future releases will add support for the new CORBA 2.1 data types such as ``long long'' and ``wchar'' etc. The mapping for IDL basic data types is given in the following table. As there are no type names for built-in Python types, the Python equivalent is given as the result of applying the built-in method type(). For the boolean type two predefined values CORBA.TRUE and CORBA.FALSE are available.

IDL Python Type

boolean <type 'int'>

char <type 'string'> (of length 1)

double <type 'float'>

float <type 'float'>

long <type 'int'>

long long <type 'long'>

octet <type 'int'>

short <type 'int'>

unsigned long <type 'long'>

unsigned long long <type 'long'>

unsigned short <type 'int'>

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March 2000

IDL	Python Type
`boolean`	`<type 'int'>`
`char`	`<type 'string'>` (of length 1)
`double`	`<type 'float'>`
`float`	`<type 'float'>`
`long`	`<type 'int'>`
`long long`	`<type 'long'>`
`octet`	`<type 'int'>`
`short`	`<type 'int'>`
`unsigned long`	`<type 'long'>`
`unsigned long long`	`<type 'long'>`
`unsigned short`	`<type 'int'>`