You can create a dict and pass to update:

<code>
def post_update():
  ID = request.vars.id
  FIELD = request.vars.field
  VALUE = request.vars.value
  data = {FIELD: VALUE}

  db(db.post.id==ID).update(**data)
</code>

Note: this solution is pure Python. No feature from Web2py here.




On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Najtsirk <kristjan.stro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> let say that i pass vars id, field & value to a controller. Than I want to
> preform an update.
>
> def post_update():
>   ID = request.vars.id
>   FIELD = request.vars.field
>   VALUE = request.vars.value
>
>   db(db.post.id==ID).update(FIELD=VALUE)
>
>
> This, obviously, does not work. How can I achieve that i can dinamically
> update records?
>
> Best,
> Kristjan
>
>
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