[web2py] Re: Specify update column

[Anthony]

db(query).update(**{field_name: value})

Anthony

On Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:40:08 PM UTC-4, naveed wrote:
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> I understand I can do an update in web2py like so:
>
> db(query).update(field=value)
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> where field corresponds to a column in the table. 
>
> If I have the column name as a string, how can I use this string variable 
> to specify the column to do an update?
>