If you need to use field_list elsewhere and don't want it to be mutated by SQLFORM, then just pass a copy of it to SQLFORM instead.
import copy form = SQLFORM(db.t_table_1, fields = copy.copy(field_list)) I suppose SQLFORM could be changed to do the copying itself. Anthony On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 12:10:53 PM UTC-5, Spokes wrote: > > After passing a list to SQLFORM's 'fields' parameter, it appears that 'id' > is prepended to that list. For example: > > field_list = ['field_1', 'field_2', 'field_3', ...] > form = SQLFORM(db.t_table_1, fields = field_list) > > After the above statements are executed, 'field_list' is equal to ['id', > 'field_1', 'field_2', 'field_3', ...]. Has anyone else noticed the same > issue? If this is a common occurrence, rather than something idiosyncratic > to my program (and I haven't found anything in my code that's likely to > cause this to happen), it doesn't seem like a desirable behavior from > SQLFORM. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
