This

rows = db(db.zoo.tier == 2).select()

is equivalent to

rows = db(db.zoo.tier.belongs([2])).select()

you can do

rows = db(db.zoo.tier.belongs([2, 3])).select()


On Thursday, 8 August 2013 14:28:47 UTC-5, dave wrote:
>
> I have two tables defined as follows
>
> db.define_table('animals', 
>             Field('type'),
>             format='%(type)s')
>
> db.define_table('zoo', 
>             Field('name'), 
>             Field('tier', 'reference animals'),
>             format='%(name)s' 
>             ) 
>
> field type is a column with values like, test 1, test 2, test 3
> now if I want to select all the records of table zoo with 'test 2' I can 
> do something like this 
>
> rows = db(db.zoo.tier == "2").select()
>
> but why can't I do something like 
> db(db.zoo.tier.contains("2")).select() or
> pass a list  ["2", "3"] to the contains operator to get all the records of 
> "test 2" and "test 3"? can you suggest another way of implementing this?
>

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