Good point. On Saturday, February 23, 2013 12:48:04 PM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote: > > While update()ing fields are translated to column names, so you don't have > to fetch the record just to increment it. > > >>>db.define_table('myupdates', Field('quantity', 'integer')) > >>>db(db.myupdates.id == 1)._update(quantity=db.myupdates.quantity + 1) > 'UPDATE myupda SET quantity=(myupda.quantity + 1) WHERE (myupda.id = 1);' > > > That piece of code (updating the product) is correct. > > On Saturday, February 23, 2013 5:22:04 PM UTC+1, Anthony wrote: >> >> db(db.product.id==key).update(quantity=db.product.quantity - >>> value) >> >> >> Here you probably want: >> >> db(db.product.id==key).update(quantity=db.product(key).quantity -value >> ) >> >> db.product.quantity is a Field object, but you want to get the value of >> that field for the particular record, which is db.product(key).quantity. >> >> Anthony >> >
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