I am using xlwt to export the data (I want an excel file, and a bit more
control over format). I recently made it work, in about the most clumsy
way possible (getting a row object from the referenced table, casting it
into a string, and finding the substring that I want to display), but there
has to be a simpler way.
Thanks!
-Joe Peacock
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 9:36:22 AM UTC-5, Anthony wrote:
>
> How are you exporting the data? The export_to_csv_file() method, for
> example, takes a "represent" argument -- if set to True, it will use each
> field's "represent" attribute to convert the values before exporting.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 9:59:15 AM UTC-4, joe wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I am working with xlwt and trying to export a table of mine into a .xls
>> file. This table contains some foreign keys, and they are being exported
>> as the id of the other table rathan than the 'name' field, which is what I
>> want to display. I define the foreign key fields in the table like this:
>>
>>
>> Field('owner', db.person, requires = IS_EMPTY_OR(IS_IN_DB(db, db.person,
>> '%(name)s')), represent=lambda id, row: db.person(id).name if id else ' '),
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
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