You can do this by building a list of fields and then using the python unpack operator. For example:
field_list = [db.auth_user.first_name] if ask_for_lastname: field_list.append(db.auth_user.last_name) rows = db(query).select(*field_list) See https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/controlflow.html#unpacking-argument-lists -- 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.