Thank you Anthony. I don't know about the raw SQL query. I will ask on Stackoverflow and post the link here.
Best, Archibald On 26 oct, 19:07, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:21:33 PM UTC-4, Archibald Linx wrote: > > > Thank you Anthony ! > > > Is the length "len" always defined in Python ? > > No, I think the len() function will fail if you pass None to it, so if you > were using request.vars, you'd want something like: > > default=len(request.vars.to) if request.vars.to is not None else [whatever > you want the default to be otherwise] > > > > > > > > > > > > > I couldn't find much tools in the documentation to query lists of > > references apart from the "contains" operator. > > > For example, let's have the following "message" table : > > id / to / status > > 1 / steve,jimmy / 0,2 > > 2 / john,julia / 1,2 > > 3 / julia,peggy / 0,1 > > > I want to get the rows where "Julia" is in "to" and where her status > > is "0" (in this particular case, that is row n°3). > > With the "contains" operator I only know how to get the rows where > > "Julia" is in "to" (that is row n°2 and n°3). > > > Should I write raw SQL ? > > How would you write it in raw SQL?

