Thanks! I didn't know that objects could be callable in Python.
On Feb 17, 10:44 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > db is a DAL object, which is callable. Its __call__ method takes a query > and returns a Set object, which has a select() method for pulling records > from the database. So, typically, you would do: > > db(query).select(...) > > However, you can call db without any query (it defaults to None), in which > case, the select will simply return all records from the table specified in > the select() call. So: > > db().select(db.image.ALL, orderby=db.image.title) > > returns all records in the db.image table. It is equivalent to: > > db(db.image.id > 0).select(db.image.ALL, orderby=db.image.title) > > Seehttp://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/6#select. > > Anthony > > > > > > > > On Friday, February 17, 2012 8:34:54 PM UTC-5, davidkw wrote: > > > For the line: > > > db().select(db.image.ALL, orderby=db.image.title) > > > Why is there a () after the "db" and before the select? Is db() a > > method call of some kind? > > > Thanks for any clarification.
