when you use the console you must use the -M option to execute your models.
The problem with the web based shell is well known and I do not have a fix jet. sorry. Massimo On Sep 21, 3:07 pm, guruyaya <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm actually reporting 2 problems. Both were found on the images blog > from chapter 3 of the book. Both have to do with the shell. > 1. This happens when I use web2py.py -S images>>> db > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<console>", line 1, in <module> > NameError: name 'db' is not defined > 2. This happens when I use the interactive shell from the admin panel: > In[17]: > > db().select(db.image.ALL) > > Out[17]: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<input>", line 1, in <module> > File "/home/guruyaya/python/web2py/gluon/sql.py", line 3216, in > select > rows = response(query) > File "/home/guruyaya/python/web2py/gluon/sql.py", line 3211, in > response > db._execute(query) > File "/home/guruyaya/python/web2py/gluon/sql.py", line 947, in > <lambda> > self._execute = lambda *a, **b: self._cursor.execute(*a, **b) > ProgrammingError: Cannot operate on a closed database. > > The images blog was copied without any changes on both. Needless to > say, similar things happen on other applications I use. > > Any idea?

