[web2py] looping through fields & updating

[mart]

Hi,

shouldn't something lik this work? or maybe i'm missing something for
passing in a variable for a field name?

        id=db.local_user.insert(dateTime=datetime.now())
        for key in localUserDict.keys():
            for field in db.local_user.fields:
                if field==key:
 
db(db.local_user.id==id).update(field=localUserDict[key])
                    db.commit()

the exception is of course that the Field field does not belong to the
local_user table

Thanks,
Mart :)