Thanks Vinicius, it worked.
if it couldn't find the value, it raised this error: <type 'exceptions.IndexError'> list index out of range Is the below way acceptable way of preventing the error message? Or is there a shorter way? try: num_recs = int(grid.element('.web2py_counter')[0].split()[0]) except Exception, e: num_recs = 0 else: if num_recs > 1: response.flash = T('The same zip code exists for more than one country. Choose one.') thanks Alex -- 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.