thanks Anthony, I had retrieved your older post....
I opted for a "dentist extraction": p = re.compile(r'[1-9]\d*') searchObj = p.search(str(Set)) You are right that what's deleted is gone. Howewer without ondelete=cascade some other table may still reference the deleted record -- 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.