The cleanest way is the little known and undocumented column: db(db.entities.type==5).select(db.entities.id).column()
Also if you are doing this to use in a belongs you don't need it, you can just do db(db.entities.type==5)._select(db.entities.id) -- 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.

