Suppose you do a query like this: rows = db((db.a.id==db.foo.xx) & (db.b.id==db.foo.yy)).select(db.foo.id, db.foo.aaa, db.a.name, db.b.name, db.foo.zzz, ....)
And you want to processes the results generically, say to produce JSON for input to jqGrid. By generically, I mean not having to repeat the "db.foo.aaa, db.a.name" stuff. You know, DRY. For r in rows: stuff... What is the supported way of doing this? Problems I see are: * You can't say: r[0] because row is a dict with keys 'a', 'b', and 'foo'. * You can't say: r[rows.colnames[0]] because, well, the same reason as the previous item. I see code in the Rows class like this: (t, f) = col.split('.') if isinstance(record.get(t, None), (Row,dict)): row.append(none_exception(record[t][f])) But I wouldn't want to do that because it assumes the internal structure of the Rows class...