You can use belongs. You ask for those that do not belong. http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#belongs
something like tbl_person = db()._select(db['tbl.person'].id) db(~db.persons.id.belongs(tbl_person)).select() Do you actually have dots in your tablename? That's a terrible idea. -- 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.