Hi JorgeH,
I didn't want to use eval due to code injection, but here is what I ended
up using and it worked.
field_list = ['db.mytable.field1', 'db.mytable.field2']
fields = [getattr(db.mytable, i.split(".")[-1] for i in field_list]
and in SQLFORM fields=fields
Thanks everyone!1
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 3:35:57 PM UTC-4, JorgeH wrote:
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> have you tried eval ??
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> fields = [eval ('db.mytable.field1') , eval ('db.mytable.field2') ]
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> (just a suggestion. I didn't tried myself)
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> On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 2:24:06 PM UTC-5, LoveWeb2py wrote:
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>> having trouble with the SQLFORM.smartgrid fields section
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>> Fields only takes
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>> fields = [db.mytable.field1, db.mytable.field2]
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>> I have a function that returns all the fields to be returned, but they're
>> in strings format.
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>> fields = ['db.mytable.field1', 'db.mytable.field2'] #this returns an
>> error with SQLFORM
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>> How can I convert the strings to variables like in the first fields
>> example.
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