Data types

The following table describes the supported Salesforce data types and their mapping to the Python data types. The type codes returned in the description cursor attribute can be used in the addtypecast() cursor method.

Salesforce data type	Type code	Python data type
BINARY	3002	binary
CHECKBOX	3004	bool
BOOLEAN	3004	bool
DATE	3006	datetime.date
DATETIME	3007	datetime.datetime
TIME	3018	datetime.time
CURRENCY	3005	float
NUMBER	3009	float
PERCENT	3009	float
DOUBLE	3009	float
INT	3012	int
LONG	3021	int
ANYTYPE	3017	str
AUTONUMBER	3017	str
COMBOBOX	3017	str
EMAIL	3017	str
HTML	3017	str
ID	3017	str
LONGTEXTAREA	3017	str
MULTISELECTPICKLIST	3017	str
PHONE	3017	str
PICKLIST	3017	str
REFERENCE	3017	str
TEXT	3017	str
TEXTAREA	3017	str
URL	3017	str
STRING	3017	str

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