The arguments to select should be the fields, not their names:
db(db.cargroup).select(db.cargroup.descr,
db.cargroup.seats,orderby=db.cargroup.descr).as_list()
On Dec 10, 1:53 pm, villas <villa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I make a function with named fields, e.g.
>
> def cargroup():
> carlist =
> db(db.cargroup).select('descr','seats',orderby="descr").as_list()
> return dict(carlist=carlist)
>
> Then call it with .xml extension, I get an <_extra> tag element for
> each row, e.g.:
>
> <item><_extra><descr>Chevrolet Matiz</descr><seats>3</seats></_extra></
> item>
>
> Why do we have the <_extra> tag? If I do not specify fields, then I
> don't see that. Is it a bug?
>
> -D
