Massimo, I omitted a test case because it seems occurring in any of my components and it can easily reproduced.
Here using the component example in the Book (modified a bit): model: db.define_table('comment', Field('body','text',label='Your comment'), Field('posted_on','datetime',default=request.now)) db.comment.posted_on.writable=db.comment.posted_on.readable=False controller: def index(): return dict() def post(): return dict(form=crud.create(db.comment), comments=db(db.comment.id>0).select()) views: default/post.load: {{for comment in comments:}} <div class="comment"> on {{=comment.posted_on}} says <span class="comment_body">{{=comment.body}}</span> </div> {{pass}} {{session.mysession={}}} {{session.mysession['mylabel']=comment.body}}} {{=form}} default/index.html: {{extend 'layout.html'}} {{=LOAD('default','post.load',ajax=True)}} This is part of the ticket: Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\Python26\web2py\gluon\restricted.py", line 186, in restricted ccode = compile2(code,layer) File "E:\Python26\web2py\gluon\restricted.py", line 173, in compile2 return compile(code.rstrip().replace('\r\n','\n')+'\n', layer, 'exec') File "E:\Python26\web2py\applications\test/views\default/post.load", line 11 session.mysession['mylabel']=comment.body ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax But if you change the component post.load as: {{for comment in comments:}} <div class="comment"> on {{=comment.posted_on}} says <span class="comment_body">{{=comment.body}}</span> </div> {{pass}} {{session.mysession=""}} {{session.mysession=comment.body}} {{=form}} This is working. carlo On 29 Mar, 01:22, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > what do you mean by "fails" can you provide a test case? > > On Mar 28, 5:15 pm, carlo <syseng...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a behaviour I can not explain. > > > In a controller this is a regular syntax: > > > session.mysession={} > > session.mysession['myfield']=myvalue > > > but in a .load component the same fails. > > > On the other side: > > > session.simplevalue=myvalue > > > works with no problem even in components. > > > Does anyone has an explanation? > > > carlo > >