Please tell us how do you start the shell, which OS and which version of web2py are you using.
On Mar 25, 12:12 am, Nosnam <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm following along with the web2py book, and got hung up in Chapter > 6:http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06#DAL,-Table,-Field > > When I do the following: "db = DAL('sqlite://storage.db')" absolute > nothing happens after I press enter. Nothing happens in the console, > no errors pop up in the error log, 'db' is still undefined if I try to > reference it. > > As a test, I did "db = 'test'" in the shell, then again did "db = > DAL('sqlite://storage.db')" and then refenced db, and it was still the > string 'test' > > Just to test it out, I defined a database in my Models/db.py; I'm able > to reference it in the shell, but if I try to define_table it doesn't > actually define the table. > > Do you guys have any ideas of how I can dig deeper to see why it's not > working?
