From 9b3c019edb9489af1c9adff2a5e18e16f1037787 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: oyving <oyving@pvv.ntnu.no>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:49:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed so that the PVVDB.__format method actually _checks_ the
 fields for a correct datatype.

---
 lib/mdb/db.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/mdb/db.py b/lib/mdb/db.py
index c5622fd..d326710 100644
--- a/lib/mdb/db.py
+++ b/lib/mdb/db.py
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ class PVVDB:
                 continue
             name, value    = line.strip().split(":", 1)
             value          = value.split("#", 1)[0].strip()
+            if not value in ['scalar', 'list']:
+                raise PVVDBError, "%s not legal .format datatype." % value
             fmt[name] = value
         return fmt