django-pyodbc queries returning fields with ANSI Padding Status ON, how to strip out whitespace?

Question

So I am querying an SQL Server DB which has many CHAR fields with ANSI Padding Status ON. This means that for a CHAR(10) field, the value may be "123" but I'm instead receiving "123......." (whitespace) in the result.

Is there a best practice method to handle this?

Answer 1

Apply python's strip before you save it.

Or add a method to the model which strips whitespace from the property when called. You could even override the default getter method.

@property
def stripped_foo(self):
    return self.foo.strip()