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 > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/dNtVIOucH9Q/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Dr Maurice Waka, MBCHB. Nairobi -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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/d/optout.