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.
>

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