There are various ways to do it. I will put a breakpoint and start typing 
on the shell to figure out what you want to print. One way I can think of, 

db().select(db.user_posts.ALL,orderby=auth.user.id, limitby=(0, 
whatever_number_of_post_you_want_to_display);


On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 5:42:34 PM UTC-4, Jim S wrote:
>
> Wouldn't you do this instead?
>
> user_posts = db(db.user_posts.posted_by==auth.user.id 
> <http://db.auth_user.id/>).select()
>
> I agree, it would be better if we could see the code you have so far...
>
> -Jim
>
> On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 11:23:04 AM UTC-5, LoveWeb2py wrote:
>>
>> Hi Maurice,
>>
>> You could do something like this:
>>    user_posts = db(db.user_posts.posted_by==db.auth_user.id
>> ).select(db.user_posts.ALL)
>>
>> then show that data to just the user. Kind of hard to structure without 
>> seeing your database model.
>>
>> On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 12:10:22 PM UTC-4, Maurice Waka wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried a Reddit app where one can view posts and comments.
>>> My trouble is getting the user t be the only one to view the Posts 
>>> instead of public view(all postS seen by everyone)
>>> How do I limit that?
>>> I tried:
>>> @auth.requires_signature()
>>> def view_posts_by_author():
>>>     ...code
>>>     return locals()
>>>
>>> but this does not help
>>>
>>> Rgards
>>>
>>>

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