it is a list of dictionaries. http://zerp.ly/rochacbruno Em 05/11/2011 14:15, "Bianca Cadaveri" <[email protected]> escreveu:
> May I ask one more question ? > > > web2py will pass the Row object for the record as the dictionary (the > Row class inherits from dictionary, so functions as a dictionary in > this > case) > > When several rows are returned from a database query, is the result a > dictionnary of dictionnaries ? I thank you in advance. > > BC > > On 4 nov, 14:29, Bianca Cadaveri <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Anthony !!! > > > > BC > > > > On 4 nov, 01:52, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thursday, November 3, 2011 8:31:10 PM UTC-4, Bianca Cadaveri wrote: > > > > > > Thank you very much to both of you. > > > > > > Is this way to write formats specific to Web2py : '%(first_name) % > > > > (last_name) (%(id))' ? > > > > > > I have never met before "%" followed by "()". > > > > > > It means : write "first_name last_name" corresponding to "id", right > ? > > > > > Not exactly. This is standard Python string > > > formatting: > http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting > > > > > The string above should be followed by a % and then a dictionary with > keys > > > equal to the placeholders in parentheses (in this case, first_name, > > > last_name, and id) and values equal to the values you want to > substitute > > > into the string. When you specify the 'format' argument of a table in > this > > > way, web2py will pass the Row object for the record as the dictionary > (the > > > Row class inherits from dictionary, so functions as a dictionary in > this > > > case), so the values from the record will get substituted for the field > > > names in the 'format' string. The output of the above would be > something > > > like 'John Doe (1)' (the name is John Doe and the record id is 1). > > > > > Alternatively, the format argument can be a function that takes a > single > > > Row object and returns the desired output. > > > > > Anthony
