In your case categores is a DAL rows object. there are many things you can
do with in the view:
1) embed it
{{=categories}}
2) loop over the Rows
<ul>
{{for row in categories:}}
<li>{{=row.name}}</li>
{{pass}}
</lu>
3) convert it into a json table
<script>
var categories = {{=XML(categories.as_json())}};
</script>
4) I understand you are using this:
http://www.decalage.info/en/python/html
In that case you have to convert the Rows object into a python list of
lists (table?)
table_data = [[row.id, row.name, ...] for row in categories]]
than in view:
{{=XML(*HTML.table*(table_data))}}
Hope this helps.
On Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:09:33 UTC-6, Abhijit Chatterjee wrote:
>
> This is not the right way to use web2py view but there is a html.py
> package that converts table and list to html automatically. I am trying to
> use that to see if it works out in web2py. More for an experiment than
> anything. This question may be more of a python question than web2py but
> here it is:
>
> In web2py controller I have category defined (This is an example from
> reddit clone that Massimo presented)
>
>
>
> *def categories(): categories =
> dbOBJECT(dbOBJECT.category).select(orderby=dbOBJECT.category.name
> <http://dbobject.category.name/>) return locals()*
>
> In the view when I do the following it display the categories (since its
> same as response.write) :
>
> {{=categories}}
>
> I can see the following in html (see below). does someone know how would I
> save that categories in a variable in the view (.html page) to create a
> table variable? '
>
> Lets say save it in variable = ['Entertainment', 'News', 'Sports'] without
> using for loops {{from category in categories}}? Any example you can point
> me to?
>
> *category.id* <http://category.id/>*category.name* <http://category.name/>
> 1Entertainment2News3
>
> Sports
>
>
> The idea would be to cat few of these tables together and use HTML.table
> (variable) to display in the view without ever to use html syntax. Not sure
> if its possible and probably not recommended, but wanted to try for fun.
>
>
>
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