Massimo: when a new version is released, it is the latest in trunk, right? Thanks.
On Jul 31, 6:57 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > given > > db.define_table('person',Field('name')) > id = db.person.insert(name='john') > > You can now do > > print db.person(id) > print db.person(db.person.name=='john') > print db.person(name='john') > print db.person(id,name='john') > > they all return the same record 'john'. On failure (record does not > exist) they return None. This allows the following syntax: > > record = db.person(request.args(0)) or redirect(URL('error')) > > this is better than > > record = db.person[request.args(0)] or redirect(URL('error')) > > since the latter raises an exception in case request.args(0) is not > None or an int.

