Many thanks to Massimo for creating Web2py and to Massimo and other contributors for keeping it going and improving it. I am having fun working with it.
Equally big thanks to Anthony for answering my questions here. I would most probably have given up on web2py, had Anthony not helped me with my problems. I have been playing around with Web2py for the last few months and have been able to get things done with it. I have so far not used DAL, but now I will try and get into that. Thanks again. --