Sorry for the late response. When you print a select() you get the default csv serialization. For anything else I suggest you do it manually by looping over records and columns. Or use the csv module if you need csv.
On Oct 25, 4:59 pm, lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > hello one and all, > > here is the default behavior when i run the select statement like: > > d = db.news > lst = db(d.id>0).select(d.id, d.event_date, d.permission, d.type, > d.title, d.body, orderby=~d.event_date) > > news.id news.event_date news.permission news.type news.title > news.body > 29 2011-03-17 Equipment Con... Tektronix > Tektronix has... > 28 2011-01-14 Event Research Hiat... After a long > ... > > so you can see that i know how to change which fields display, but i > would like to make news.body display say a character length of 30, and > change the headers to remove the "news.". > > how do i do both of those customizations? thank you in advance and > have a great day. lucas
