Just a note: Web2py creates automatically an id for each table right?
On 2 aug, 15:05, Alastair Medford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aha, thanks for both the great answers. I had a slight idea as to what
> each were, but I had never seen those variations of the syntax. Thanks
> again.
>
> On Aug 1, 11:14 am, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Fran <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > On Aug 1, 3:32 am, Alastair Medford <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > db.student.student_id.requires=IS_NOT_IN_DB(db,'student.student_id')
> > > > > db.tasks.student.requires=IS_IN_DB(db,'student.id','%(student_id)s')
> > > > > db.tasks.student.represent=lambda id: db.student[id].student_id
> > > > This seems to accomplish what I was trying to do, thanks. However, I'm
> > > > in the dark as to what some of the syntax is. In the second line, I
> > > > know that the third argument has something to do with how the drop
> > > > down box chooses it's contents, but I do not understand the syntax of
> > > > '%(student_id)s'. Also, in the 3rd line I do not know what "lambda id:
> > > > " is doing. If this is standard python fare, then I apologise as I'm
> > > > still learning python and all it's syntax tricks. Thanks again.
>
> > > These are both std Python.
>
> > > '%(student_id)s' => replace '' with the value of student_id
>
> > you can google "python string substitution - it is based on the C
> > language's printf % codes,
> > so where in a C string you would have:
>
> > printf(" this is my name: %s %s\n", first_name, last_name)
>
> > where %s is a string, replaced by the first argument (in this case a
> > variable called 'name')
>
> > Python string substitution, there are a few ways to accomplish something
> > similar:
>
> > "this is my name: %s %s" % first_name, last_name
>
> > will replace the %s with the contents of name; if you have a form email.
> > for example, you would could have a preformatted template, and load it with
> > different variables at each use.
>
> > If you wanted to load a template with the same variables each time (and let
> > the variable contents change), then you could equivalently write this as:
>
> > "this is my name: %(first_name)s %(last_name)s"
>
> > lambda functions allow you to use a little program to fill in the
>
> > > value
> > > so lambda id: db.student[id].student_id
> > > says 'use the value of this cell within the formula db.student
> > > [value].student_id'
> > >http://diveintopython.org/power_of_introspection/lambda_functions.html
>
> > That is a good link - think of lambda functions as anaonymous, or inline
> > functions (functions without a name)
>
> > > F
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