tags has to be a list of strings, try:
db.entries.insert(title='hello',tags='one,two,three'.split(','))
or the equivalent:
db.entries.insert(title='hello',tags=['one','two','three'])
On Jan 14, 10:14 am, Joseph Jude <ceph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I went into shell in a new web2py directory and tried the below.
> Surprisingly, I get empty output. Any explanations?
>
> python web2py.py -S init -M
>
> db.define_table('entries',
> Field('title', type='string'),
> Field('tags', 'list:string'))
>
> >>> db.entries.insert(title='hello',tags='one,two,three')
>
> 1
>
> >>> t=db(db.entries.tags.contains('one')).select()
> >>> t.as_list()
>
> []
