How to call rows format?

[Richard Penman]

Hello,

my database table defines 'format' - what is the proper way to use this in a view?

Currently I have been using what I found in internals of SQLFORM:

db.tablename._format(record)

Richard

[Anthony]

That's it.

[Richard Baron Penman]

I ask because typically a leading underscore would indicate a private method.

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[Anthony]

In this case, the leading underscore is there to ensure the format attribute doesn't clash with any possible field names (which are also accessed as attributes of the table object). See http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#Run-time-field-and-table-modification.

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[Richard Baron Penman]

ah OK, that makes sense.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In this case, the leading underscore is more to ensure the format attribute

> doesn't clash with any possible field names (which are also accessed as
> attributes of the table object).
>

> Anthony