Thank you. It worked. :-)
I think it would be nice to update book to document it, right? On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:44:47 AM UTC-4, viniciusban wrote: >> >> In the book there's this comments about it: >> >> [cite] >> Most attributes of fields and tables can be modified after they are >> defined: >> >> db.define_table('person',Field('name',default=''),format='%(name)s') >> db.person._format = '%(name)s/%(id)s' > > You can make the above work by preceding that last line with: > db.person.pop('_format') > That will remove the '_format' key from db.person, which will then allow you > to add a new one. Note, you can't do del db.person['_format'] because in > that case it thinks you are trying to access a record in the db.person table > (nor del db.person._format, because it won't recognize _format as an > attribute, since technically it is a dict key). > Anyway, perhaps we should enable keys that start with _ to be changed (which > is the case with DAL objects). > Anthony
