Thanks for the input. Yes it is part of a web2py app game.
I have about 1000 rows, but when a user types in the keyword(stored in any
of the rows) i should get a boolean answer which for now displays the
row(different code on this)
Regards

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:08:00 AM UTC-4, Maurice Waka wrote:
>>
>> I have several lists in sqlite rows as follows:
>>
>> ROWID  x
>>   1    ['123', '1234', '12345',]
>>   2    ['abc', 'abcd', 'abcde',]
>>   3    ['1a2b3c', '1a2b3c4d', '1a2b3c4d5e',]
>>
>> How are you storing the lists in a single SQLite column? Did you convert
> Python lists to strings?
>
>
>> def types():
>>     location = ""
>>     conn = sqlite3.connect("types.db")
>>     c = conn.cursor()
>>     c.execute('select * from types ORDER by X')
>>     for rowid,X in c.execute("select rowid,X from types order by X"):
>>       return row[:]
>>
>> Given that the identifier "row" has not been defined, the final line
> should raise an exception. Also, you don't want to return in the for loop,
> as that will terminate the function on the first pass through the loop.
>
> Is this in a web2py app? If so, I would recommend using the DAL and store
> your lists in a list:string field. As far as looping and returning values,
> it's hard to say without more details regarding what you are trying to do.
> Are you just trying to display all the rows in an HTML page?
>
> Anthony
>
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