It shouldn't. It should throw an error at the print statement because 'a' is not defined.
On Jul 22, 6:33 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > The following code uses: > 1) a computed field > 2) a self reference > 3) a virtual field > > >>> db.define_table('a',Field('x'),Field('y','reference > >>> a'),Field('z',compute=lambda row: row['x']*3)) > >>> class A: > >>> def t(self): return len(self.a.z) > >>> db.a.virtualfields.append(A()) > >>> r=db.a.insert(x='hello') > >>> r.update_record(x=r.x,y=r) > >>> print a.y.y.y.y.t > > 15 > > Can you explain how it works?
