I just failed my exam :) Thank you Anthony
2017-08-10 20:25 GMT+01:00 Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com>: > > > 2017-08-10 18:06 GMT+01:00 António Ramos <ramstei...@gmail.com>: >> >>> better explanation >>> >>> first execution >>> id=db.entities.update_or_insert( ((db.entities.type==5) & >>> (db.entities.entity=="xaaa")),entity="xaaa",type=5) >>> >>> record inserted >>> >>> >>> id=db.entities.update_or_insert( ((db.entities.type==5) & >>> (db.entities.entity=="xaaa")),entity="othertext",type=5) >>> >>> No record inserted , id=None >>> >> > If id=None, that indicates and update was done rather than an insert. > > the tried again >> >> id=db.entities.update_or_insert( ((db.entities.type==5) & >> (db.entities.entity=="xaaa")),entity="othertext",type=5) >> and record inserted and not updated.... >> > > Well, assuming the id=None returned from the previous attempt indicated an > update, that means there is no longer a record with entity="xaaa", so this > third call will now insert a new record with that value, as expected. > > Anthony > > -- > 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. > -- 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.