http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer?search=reserved+word#Reserved-keywords
Do you have it in your connection string? You should be notified that it a mysql reserved word... If not... Have you change database? New empty database sound like you restart database from scratch... web2py keep track of migration of models you have to migrate=false fake_migrate=true then back to migrate=true to allow web2py to sync with the database... http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer?search=fake_migrate#migrate--fake_migrate Richard On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Brian Boatright <[email protected]> wrote: > Is "items" a keyword for Python or Web2py? I'm using mysql and having > web2py models file define a new table named "items" but it gives me an > error that says the table already exists. > > If I change the name of the table to something like "items2" in the > models.py file it works. > > The mysql database is empty of tables before this is run and I've > confirmed there is no items table before it tries to run the models.py > file. I can create a table manually named items so it isn't specific to > MySQL database. > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
