<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Carson,<div><br></div><div>I'm trying to perform a table join using an existing shapefile and an external dbf file. I get the following error when I perform the task, but I am not sure why it is claiming the match columns (or one of them) is not string or numeric. I've used both string and numeric (integer) columns with the same result.</div><div><br></div><div>I can send you the table and shapefile in a separate email if that will help resolve this.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><!--StartFragment--><span style=" color:#ff0000;">An error has occured while executing Python code:</span><br><br>Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "/Applications/qgis1.2.0.app/Contents/MacOS/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools/doJoinAttributes.py", line 109, in accept<br> self.compute(inName, inField, joinName, joinField, outPath, keep, useTable, self.progressBar)<br> File "/Applications/qgis1.2.0.app/Contents/MacOS/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools/doJoinAttributes.py", line 165, in compute<br> table = map(lambda f: map(func, f), table)<br> File "/Applications/qgis1.2.0.app/Contents/MacOS/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools/doJoinAttributes.py", line 165, in <br> table = map(lambda f: map(func, f), table)<br> File "/Applications/qgis1.2.0.app/Contents/MacOS/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools/doJoinAttributes.py", line 164, in <br> func = lambda x: (unicode(type(x)) != "" and QVariant(float(x))) or (QVariant(x))<br>TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number<br><br>Python version:<br>2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 13 2009, 10:26:13) <br>[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)]<br><br>Python path:['/Applications/qgis1.2.0.app/Contents/MacOS/share/qgis/python', '/Users/jctull/.qgis//python/plugins', '/Applications/qgis1.2.0.app/Contents/MacOS/share/qgis/python/plugins', '/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.6/Python/site-packages', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/nose-0.11.0.dev_r560-py2.5.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.98.6svn-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/pytz-2008i-py2.5.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/py2app-0.3.6-py2.5.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/pyparsing-1.5.1-py2.5.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/PyOpenGL-3.0.0b8-py2.5.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/scipy-0.7.0-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/pyamg-1.0.0-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/numpy-1.2.1-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/simplejson-2.0.9-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/Shapely-1.0.11-py2.5.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/psycopg2-2.0.9-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/pymc-2.0-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg', '/usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.9.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.9.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python25.zip', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-darwin', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-mac', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.9.1/lib/python2.5', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC', '/Applications/qgis1.2.0.app/Contents/MacOS/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools']<!--EndFragment--></div></div></body></html>