the book shows how to print every argument passed to those functions.... I dunno how to make the book clearer :°°°D
before_insert .... def this_is_before_insert(some_dict): if 'last_name' in some_dict: some_dict['last_name'] = 'altering' + some_dict['last_name'] db.auth_user._before_insert.append(lambda f: this_is_before_insert(f)) >>>db.auth_user.insert(first_name='john') 1L >>> db.auth_user.insert(last_name='doe') 2L >>> rtn = db(db.auth_user.id>0).select(db.auth_user.first_name, db.auth_user .last_name) >>> print str(rtn) auth_user.first_name,auth_user.last_name john, ,alteringdoe before_update ... def this_is_before_update(a_set, some_dict): if 'last_name' in some_dict: some_dict['last_name'] += 'was_updated' db.auth_user._before_update.append(lambda s,f: this_is_before_update(s,f)) >>> db.auth_user.insert(first_name='john', last_name='doe') 1L >>> db(db.auth_user.first_name=='john').update(last_name='white') 1 >>> rtn = db(db.auth_user.id>0).select(db.auth_user.first_name, db.auth_user .last_name) >>> print str(rtn) auth_user.first_name,auth_user.last_name john,whitewas_updated -- 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.