Answers is a small table, can have up to 100 rows. I'll introduce the limitby(). There are several functions that an item loops through, almost 100, but with a filter to limit the number of functions, with the final result returned by report()
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, 18:30 Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > db.answers.insert(quest=names, message=report()) >> > > What does report() do? Is that an expensive function? > > >> replies = db(db.answers.author == auth.user.id).select(db.answers.ALL >> )[-10:-1] >> > > Above you are selecting every record in the db.answers table and > converting them to Python objects -- is that a big table? You should > instead use limitby to select only the records you want. > > Anthony > > -- > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/OJRaYk57ZPQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.

