Another Book Correction Needed (5th ed P.369)

[REM]

There appears to be another error in the 5th Edition Web2Py book in Chapter 7 on P.369.

The issue is with the following code block:

def list_records():
    REGEX = re.compile('^(\w+).(\w+).(\w+)\=\=(\d+)$')
    match = REGEX.match(request.vars.query)
    if not match:
        redirect(URL('error'))
    table, field, id = match.group(2), match.group(3), match.group(4)
    records = db(db[table][field]==id).select()
    return dict(records=records)

When the related action is run, we get the following error:

<type 'exceptions.NameError'> global name 're' is not defined

And referring to line 2 of the above function as being the source of the issue:

REGEX = re.compile('^(\w+).(\w+).(\w+)\=\=(\d+)$')

So, my question is: with what do we replace the "re" in the problem line?



Many thanks!

[Alex]

seems like

import re

is missing at beginning of function.

Alex

[Robert Moore]

Thanks, now it works.

Man, seems like learning this stuff would be a lot easier if I had already learned it. Then spotting/fixing these book errors would be a breeze.

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