db(~db.people.name.belongs(namelist)).delete() Anthony
On Thursday, October 9, 2014 1:45:23 PM UTC-4, Niels Jensen wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a list of names > namelist = ['Niels', 'Bob', 'Frank', 'Pat', 'Ann'] > > I'd like to remove all records from a table where the name field does not > have a name in the list. > For example if all the above exist in the table > Is there a function to do this or will I need to loop through each row in > the table. I was thinking something like this might work? > > > rows = db(db.people.name != namelist).select() > del db.mytable[rows] > > > > > > -- 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/d/optout.
