Sorry, should have been:

db.fuelLogging._before_update.append(fuelLogging_before_update)

I have updated the original answer.

Anthony

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 1:02:13 AM UTC-5, mostwanted wrote:
>
> This is my model code, its basically what you did: I am getting this error 
> everytime i try to open the view
> *<type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'> invalid table "fuelLogging" attributes: 
> set(['before_update'])*
>
> *MODEL CODE*
> def fuelLogging_before_update(*args, **kwargs):
>     db.fuelLogging.compute = lambda r: (db.fuelLogging.ODO_Reading * -1) + 
> r.ODO_Reading
>     
> db.define_table('fuelLogging',
>                 Field('Quantity', 'integer', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
>                 Field('Rate', 'integer', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
>                 Field('Total', compute=lambda r: int(r['Quantity'])*int(r[
> 'Rate'])),
>                 Field('ODO_Reading', 'integer', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
>                 Field('Fuel_Usage', compute=lambda r: int(r['Delta'])/
> int(r['Quantity'])),
>                 Field('Delta', default=0),
>                 before_update=fuelLogging_before_update)
>
>
> I guess i am doing something wrong somewhere!
>
> On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 11:37:10 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 2:23:32 AM UTC-5, mostwanted wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying your formula but my Delta field is not getting updated. It 
>>> is supposed to change as i enter a different value in ODO_Reading.
>>>
>>
>> Please show your exact code. Note, if you are using .update_record, the 
>> Row returned by that method will not contain the updated Delta value, as 
>> that value is calculated in the database. To get the updated value, you 
>> would need to fetch the record from the database.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>

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