Thank you.
It worked. :-)
I think it would be nice to update book to document it, right?
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, October 30, 2011 1:44:47 AM UTC-4, viniciusban wrote:
>>
>> In the book there's this comments about it:
>>
>> [cite]
>> Most attributes of fields and tables can be modified after they are
>> defined:
>>
>> db.define_table('person',Field('name',default=''),format='%(name)s')
>> db.person._format = '%(name)s/%(id)s'
>
> You can make the above work by preceding that last line with:
> db.person.pop('_format')
> That will remove the '_format' key from db.person, which will then allow you
> to add a new one. Note, you can't do del db.person['_format'] because in
> that case it thinks you are trying to access a record in the db.person table
> (nor del db.person._format, because it won't recognize _format as an
> attribute, since technically it is a dict key).
> Anyway, perhaps we should enable keys that start with _ to be changed (which
> is the case with DAL objects).
> Anthony
