Massimo, note that prettydate() does fail silently due to a try/except (the
except returns '') -- see
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/web2py/Rguuny9E3X8/-a976Tjx4EIJ%5B1-25%5D
.
Anthony
On Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:14:47 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> Try:
>
> {{=prettydate(item.timestamp)}} {{=item.timestamp}} to check there is
> actually something to display.
>
> functions cannot fail silently in view. If they are executed and fail,
> they raise an exception.
>
> On Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:24:08 UTC-5, Pystar wrote:
>>
>> still doesnt work
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:45:47 AM UTC+1, Pystar wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, After doing type(item.now). I discovered that web2py is escaping my
>>> retrieved data from the database and converting everything into strings.
>>> And since prettydate() doesnt work on strings but datetime objects, it
>>> fails.
>>> For this prettydate to work in the views, I would have to
>>> import datetime and do
>>> datetime.datetime.strptime(item.now, [format]) in order to format the
>>> datetime object that has now being converted into a string back to a
>>> datetime object and then allow prettydate() to work its magic. The only
>>> problem I am having now is knowing the correct format to pass to the
>>> strptime() function as all I have used is raising this error: "2012-08-15
>>> 01:38:15.019797' does not match format '%Y, %m, %d, %H, %M, %S, %f'"
>>> I need help thanks
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:57:45 PM UTC+1, Pystar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It fails silently, it outputs nothing.
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:34:54 PM UTC+1, Anthony wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> item.now is a field in my database whose default value is request.now.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I understand, but can you report the error raised as well as
>>>>> checking the type of item.now?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anthony
>>>>>
>>>>
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