VisualFoxPro tables cause: field names should start with a letter, and only contain letters, digits, and _

Open michael-newsrx opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Visual Foxpro allows starting field names with _.

Trying to alter a table with such a field name causes the following errors:

/tables.py:3845: FieldNameWarning: '_F' invalid:  field names should start with a letter, and only contain letters, digits, and _
  bkup = Table(
/home/michael/miniconda3/envs/patents_llm_update/lib/python3.13/site-packages/dbf/tables.py:3845: FieldNameWarning: '_F_WHY' invalid:  field names should start with a letter, and only contain letters, digits, and _
  bkup = Table(
/home/michael/miniconda3/envs/patents_llm_update/lib/python3.13/site-packages/dbf/tables.py:3845: FieldNameWarning: '_F_WHY_DTL' invalid:  field names should start with a letter, and only contain letters, digits, and _

Dec 11 '24 18:12 michael-newsrx