This was because I accidentally had trailing commas on some insert param statements, causing them to be tuples instead of strings. My bad.
On Sunday, April 15, 2012 9:41:28 AM UTC-4, Yarin wrote: > > This went away, don't know why or how.. > > On Saturday, April 14, 2012 11:17:51 AM UTC-4, Yarin wrote: >> >> When inserting records with web2py's db class, my string values have >> vertical bars surrounding them. I don't remember seeing this behavior >> before. What's more, if i insert records through web2py's db admin >> interface, i don't get vertical bars. >> >> What are the vertical bars - is it a unicode thing? - and how are we >> supposed to handle them? >> >