@Mattew J Watts,
#Model

db.define_table('person',
                    Field('name'),
                    Field('age'),
                    Field('country'),
                    format='%(name)s')

db.define_table('thing',

                   Field('person_id,'reference preson')
                    Field('thing_name'),
                    Field('value'),
                    Field('location'))

#controller
def import_csv():
 form = FORM(DIV(LABEL('file
input',_for='exampleInputFile'),INPUT(_type='file',_name='csvsheet',_id="exampleInputFile"),_class='from-group'),BUTTON('click',_type='submit',_class="btn
btn-default"))
    if form.process().accepted:
        try:
            for i in csv.DictReader(request.vars.csvsheet.file):
                # db['things'].insert(person_id= db['person'].insert(**i)
,.........)
                a = db['person'].insert(**i)
                db['things'].insert(person_id=a,.........)
        except:
            form.errors.csvfile = 'Invalid file format.'
    return locals()

Hope, this will help you!

Best/

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:51 AM Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 2:24:51 PM UTC-4, pbreit wrote:
>>
>> I know db.thing.insert will return the ID of the newly created record and
>> am pretty sure update_or_insert does as well. I'm not exactly sure how you
>> would determine if an update or insert was performed (but perhaps you do
>> not need to know?).
>>
>
> Actually, update_or_insert does *not* return the ID in case of an update.
> If you need the ID, then don't use update_or_insert but instead write your
> own logic (the method is fairly simple -- see
> https://github.com/web2py/pydal/blob/c954d1a22a0b83d90f728a4ab2daaa954e3f16c8/pydal/objects.py#L822
> ).
>
> Anthony
>
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