not sure why but client.get() often fails for me. I'll have a play round with this too.
thanks! On Jun 18, 4:16 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Brendan, > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Brendan <brendan.fosbe...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > This is probably fairly simple to do but I'm fairly new to GAE and am > > having trouble with it. > > > Say I run a query on an entity like so: > > > query1=Client.all() > > query1.fetch(1) > > client=query1[0] > > > selecting the first entry in the entity Client. > > Using query1.get() is a neater way to do this - it returns the first result, > or None if there are no results. > > > > > Then I iterate through the list of fields like so: > > > for column in Client.fields(): > > I presume you mean Client.properties()? > > > > > How can I access the data for that column in the row given by the > > query1 object? This is a fairly simple thing in Java with most > > databases but I'm using Python and GAE.. > > Try this: > > for name, property in Client.properties.iteritems() > value = property.__get__(client, Client) > > -Nick Johnson > > > > > > > I know I can access each element individually like this: > > > first_name = client.first_name > > > etc > > > however I need to be able to dynamically reference the name of the > > field ..something like this > > > col_name = "first_name" > > first_name_var = client.get(col_name) > > > thanks > > -- > Nick Johnson, App Engine Developer Programs Engineer > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: > 368047 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
