In a web2py shell for your application try: " '{0}' ".format("foo' ")
You will get: " 'foo' ' " You can see how this will cause it to have unclosed ' in the strings which then can give you that error. How you fix this is by quoting the string using your DB's dialect " '{0}' ".format(db._adapter.dialect.quote("foo' ")) Which gets you something like: ' \'"foo\' "\' ' See the difference? This is the problem with using executesql, what you had here was an SQL Injection vulnerability which is fixed by using quote. -- 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.