db.customer(5).first_name See http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#Fetching-a-Row .
Anthony On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:49:30 AM UTC-5, User wrote: > > Is there a convenience method to select a scalar value from a database > table? > > What I do currently is: > > db(db.customer.id == 5).select(db.customer.first_name).first().first_name > > > If not would it make sense to add one? Seems like a reasonably common use > case. Maybe something like > > db(db.customer.id == 5).scalar(db.customer.first_name) > > > Not that big a difference but might be worthwhile. > > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
