Without seeing your code I suspect you have a orderby=-something
that should be orderby=~something Should be ~ not - On Aug 9, 8:49 pm, Jared Stunn <jsmatr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can somebody please explain what the issue is. Its this video at > 9.34:http://vimeo.com/6507384 > > TRACEBACK > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "gluon/restricted.py", line 192, in restricted > File "C:/Users/Joe/Desktop/P/web2py/applications/polls/controllers/ > default.py", line 73, in <module> > File "gluon/globals.py", line 137, in <lambda> > File "C:/Users/Joe/Desktop/P/web2py/applications/polls/controllers/ > default.py", line 17, in index > TypeError: bad operand type for unary -: 'Field' > > ERROR SNAPSHOT > > <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>(bad operand type for unary -: 'Field') > > Code listing > > def index(): > latest_poll_list = db(db.poll.id>0).select(orderby= > db.poll.pub_date, limitby=(0,5)) # this is the line with the apparent > problem > > return dict(latest_poll_list=latest_poll_list) > > def user():