On Oct 29, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Chris S wrote: > > lol, well I've been all around that. Thank you so much, works just > fine now. > > Is there a quick 2-min "why that works" or somewhere you could point > me to as to what that * means/does? Apparently I'm missing out on > something important.
It's a Python thing. Check out 5.3.4 here: http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#calls > > On Oct 29, 10:33 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: >> form=SQLFORM.factory(*[fields[num] for num in range(len(fields))]) >> >> On Oct 29, 10:25 am, Chris S <sanders.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've been trying to get a form built where the number of Fields are >>> dynamic. I was successful with the plan form by using: >>> ------------Form Implementation------------------------ >>> fields=[] >>> for item in list: >>> fields.append(item) >>> fields.append(INPUT(_name=item,requires=IS_INT_IN_RANGE >>> (0,100,error_message=('Must be an Int 0 to 100')))) >>> fields.append(INPUT(_type='submit')) >> >>> form=FORM([fields[num] for num in range(len(fields))]) >>> ------------Form Implementation------------------------ >> >>> I can append items to my form but the output in HTML is nasty. >>> Everything is just crammed together. I read about form.custom and >>> was >>> going to use that approach but apparently I have to use the >>> SQLFORM.factory() to use that. Attempting the same thing in >>> SQLFORM.factory() looks like >> >>> ------------SQLFORM.factory() Implementation------------------------ >>> fields.append(Field('item1')) >>> fields.append(Field('item2')) >> >>> form=SQLFORM.factory(fields[0]) >>> #This works, but obviously isn't dynamic I only get the first entry. >> >>> form=SQLFORM.factory(fields[num] for num in range(len(fields))) >>> #This errors with "define_table argument is not a Field: <generator >>> object at 0x110BD7B0>" >>> ------------SQLFORM.factory() Implementation------------------------ >> >>> Can anyone help me out here? I want to be able to arrange the >>> fields >>> in HTML like I want (which I can't seem to do with just the simple >>> form), but I also want to be able to build the fields dynamically >>> which I can't seem to get working with SQLFORM.factory(). I'm sure >>> I'm missing something easy, this can't be as hard as I'm making it. >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
