Leonel, Anthony,
Thank you very much, both methods you mention work beautifully!
cheers,
Luca
On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 1:24:44 AM UTC+10, Anthony wrote:
>
> On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 10:34:00 AM UTC-4, Leonel Câmara wrote:
>>
>> You're doing nothing wrong, it's just the way the ConfigParser module
>> works in python, remember that the only thing you have in a config file are
>> strings, config files are not Python. Luckily AppConfig take has a cast
>> argument which you can use for this. So instead of
>>
>> tasks = ('Call', 'Meet', 'Email')
>> myconf.take('dropdown_choices.tasks')
>>
>> Do this in your appconfig.ini
>> [dropdown_choices]
>> tasks = Call,Meet,Email
>>
>> And in your model do this
>> myconf.take('dropdown_choices.tasks', cast=lambda foo: foo.split(','))
>>
>
> And with the latest version of web2py, you can now do:
>
> myconf.get('dropdown_choices.tasks')
>
> Note the use of .get instead of .take (.get is a smart version of .take
> that does some automatic conversions, including converting comma separated
> lists into Python lists -- you can even put spaces after the commas and it
> will automatically strip them).
>
> Anthony
>
>
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