On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 5:31:59 PM UTC-7, Dave S wrote:
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> On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 3:27:31 PM UTC-7, Alex Glaros wrote:
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>> does anyone see anything wrong with the update syntax?
>>
>> def utility_change_column_name(): #used once in a while by programmer. 
>> Not used by users.
>>     for r in db.PostalCode:
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Oh, getting all the column names, er, field names.  Is countryCode a column 
name?
 

>         db(db.PostalCode).update(r.countryCode = r.countryCodeFromGeoNames)
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> shouldn't this be "db(db.PostalCode).update(countryCode = 
> r.countryCodeFromGeoNames)" ?
>

I guess not.  Can you use update() to modify column names?  Or just the 
contents of the field?


/dps
 

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>>     return dict()
>>
>> am getting 
>> <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'> keyword can't be an expression
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>>   File "C:\alex\alt_web2py\web2py\gluon\restricted.py", line 209, in compile2
>>     return compile(code.rstrip().replace('\r\n', '\n') + '\n', layer, 'exec')
>>   File "C:/alex/alt_web2py/web2py/applications/ES1/controllers/default.py" 
>> <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/ES1/controllers/default.py>, line 
>> 5924
>>     db(db.PostalCode.id).update(r.countryCode = r.countryCodeFromGeoNames)
>> SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression
>>
>>
> /dps
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