Do not use the web based shell. It has problems and this may be one of them. You can use the console shell
python web2py.py -S appname -M >>> On Monday, 4 January 2016 14:23:11 UTC-6, Richard Knight wrote: > > I'm new to Web2py - I need a web-based database front-end for a project, > and Web2py looks great and easy to learn. > I've been working through Massimo's Web2py video course, but when (in > section 5) he clicks on the 'Shell' button (under Controllers) - he enters > 'db' at the >>> prompt and gets a response from the database - but I get > 'None'. At that point I'd already used the 'Database Administration' > button to create and enter data into a table successfully, so I've > obviously missed something simple. Any suggestions? I've tried creating my > table both within the default 'db.py' and my own 'db1.py' - it makes no > difference to this problem. > Thanks. > -- 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.