That's too bad. It seems like the perfect thing to be able to do. I
know I can pick apart the SQLTable in the view, but it would be so
darn sweet to be able to do it in the represent view ...
On Sep 20, 1:30 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> This cannot be done with represent. The function is design to provide
> a representation for an individual field and there is no way to access
> other fields from within the function.
>
> On Sep 19, 10:52 pm, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > I know this issue has come up before but I'm having a hard time
> > finding the answer. My table has fields x and y. I want to do a
> > represent like this:
>
> > db.mytable.x.represent=lambda val: XML('<div class="highlighted">%s</
> > div>'%val) if (x and not y) else val
>
> > Well, obviously, the above won't work. However, in general, is there a
> > way to interrogate the values of other fields from the same row using
> > the represent lambda function? I seem to recall the answer is no, but
> > I can't seem to find the answer easily.
>
>
