Thank you for the quick responses. That was indeed the problem.
On Aug 10, 2:18 am, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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():
