a .select() returns a Rows() object. iterating through that set of data to fetch what you need - if you need it - it's the only way.
If you need only the id, you'd be better off doing rows = db(db.table).select(db.table.id, cacheable=True) and then iterating the reduced set because: - only one column is fetched back and parsed into Rows - the cacheable attribute strips off the facilities of auto-references, update_record and delete_record, etc More advanced "extraction" techniques involve passing a processor function to the parse the resultset of the select, but at that point you may as well leverage a raw select on the underlying adapter. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
