Glad to help!  

Tip:  start your project in the commandline:
>>python web2py.py -S yourprojectname -N -M
then play around to test your code snippets.


On Monday, 26 March 2012 19:10:49 UTC+1, web-dev-m wrote:
>
> This is embarassing.  Thank you.  I swear, I tried and tried. 
>
> On Mar 26, 10:25 am, villas <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > Do this: 
> > 
> > files=db(myquery).select() 
> > files_as_list=[] 
> > for x in files: 
> >     files_as_list.append(OPTION(x.resource_title[0:50], _value=x.id, 
> > _title=x.resource_title, )) 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:25:33 UTC+1, web-dev-m wrote: 
> > 
> > > I may not be following some sort of convention, but I'm trying to 
> > > build a selector form element with a for loop from a query.  It 
> > > renders when i do it manually: 
> > 
> > > <select> 
> > > <option title="test test test test test"> 
> > > </select> 
> > 
> > > Howerver, 
> > 
> > > when I do: 
> > >     files=db(myquery).select() 
> > >     files_as_list=[] 
> > >     for x in files: 
> > >         files_as_list+=(OPTION(x.resource_title[0:50], value=x.id, 
> > > _title=x.resource_title, )) 
> > 
> > > the resulting html doesnt have the title attribute.  I am running 
> > > 1.99.2. 
> > 
> > > Any suggestions?

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