have you tried eval ?? fields = [eval ('db.mytable.field1') , eval ('db.mytable.field2') ]
(just a suggestion. I didn't tried myself) On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 2:24:06 PM UTC-5, LoveWeb2py wrote: > > having trouble with the SQLFORM.smartgrid fields section > > Fields only takes > > fields = [db.mytable.field1, db.mytable.field2] > > I have a function that returns all the fields to be returned, but they're > in strings format. > > fields = ['db.mytable.field1', 'db.mytable.field2'] #this returns an error > with SQLFORM > > How can I convert the strings to variables like in the first fields > example. > -- 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.