Re: questions

the first argument to select must be a (where) clause of some sort;
[db.timetable.c.day] is invalid

a suggestion: when trying something new, change one thing at a time. 
obviously this statement didn't work before adding the "distinct;" if
you had started with a working statement and then added distinct, it
would have been clear where the problem was [not].

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:53:28 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
<[email protected]> said:
> Thank you for the clarification. What is the syntax for the use of
> distinct=True with the select statement. I seem to be getting errors with
> the following syntax:
> days=db.timetable.select([db.timetable.c.day], distinct=True). 
> Thanks again for all your help.
> MJ
> 
> On Monday 23 October 2006 17:32, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > As discussed in a recent thread with someone else, you cannot use [[=
> > inside an active tag.  just prefix a value with = to cause it to be
> > eval'd instead.  (The only exception is the "data" attribute which is
> > _always_ eval'd like this.)  So,
> >
> > <f:select name=day data="[L.day for L in all]" default="=unit.day" />
> >
> > btw, distinct=True does nothing in f:select, perhaps you meant to put it
> > in timetable.select().
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:26:45 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
> >
> > <[email protected]> said:
> > > Hi,
> > > OK. I have added the tag with the default attribute (attached file) but I
> > > now
> > > do not get anything displayed in the column in the table. The page
> > > displays
> > > but there are no drop down menus. This is rather strange. The spyce
> > > compiler
> > > does not seem to be complaining about the code but nothing is displayed.
> > > Is
> > > there something wrong with my code that I am just not seeing? Is this
> > > something to do with the browser that I am using? Any help will be
> > > gratefully
> > > received.
> > > Thanks very much for all your help.
> > > MJ
> > >
> > > On Monday 23 October 2006 14:54, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > > > use the "default" attribute
> > > >
> > > > <f:select data=... default=onevalue />
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:05:31 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
> > > >
> > > > <[email protected]> said:
> > > > > Hello again,
> > > > > I am having problems with the <f:select> tag and having a particular
> > > > > value selected on a page. Basically what I want to do is have the day
> > > > > that is in a particular row of a database selected in the drop down
> > > > > menu. Is there a way for me to do this?
> > > > > Thanks in advance for any help given.
> > > > > MJ
> > > > > PS sorry for any bounced email, the email address I use is a valid
> > > > > one as it is a work address. I have no idea why this would happen.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > > > > > Try <%= day %> to see if it's a sequence before using it in the
> > > > > > f:select
> > > > > >
> > > > > > just add ", distinct=True" to your select args to perform "select
> > > > > > distinct," although I would guess that something's wrong with your
> > > > > > model if days in the timetable are not already unique :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:48:07 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <[email protected]> said:
> > > > > >> I keep
> > > > > >> getting an error when I try to use the <f:select> tag with/
> > > > > >> data="[d.day for d in day]"/ where
> > > > > >> /day=db.timetable.select(order_by=[db.timetable.c.day])/.  The
> > > > > >> error is TypeError:unpack non-sequence. Any help with why this is
> > > > > >> not working would be useful. Also is there a way of doing the sql
> > > > > >> query "select distinct day from timetable;" in spyce/sqlalchemy?
> > > > > >> Thanks for all your help.
> > > > > >> MJ
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > > > > >>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:25:33 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> <[email protected]> said:
> > > > > >>>> Hello again,
> > > > > >>>> I am currently attempting to develop a web interface linked to a
> > > > > >>>> database and was wondering if anyone knew how I could display
> > > > > >>>> the contents of a table or part table in a database as a table
> > > > > >>>> in a web page. Failing that does anyone know of somewhere where
> > > > > >>>> I could find an example?
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> get a list of data from the db, and display it with spy:table or
> > > > > >>> a manual for loop.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>>> Also is there a way of creating drop down lists using a database
> > > > > >>>> connection to populate the contents of the drop down menu?
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> same things, only with f:select.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> it is almost the same as using spy:ul as shown over here:
> > > > > >>> http://spyce.sourceforge.net/docs/whats-new-2-1.html
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> -Jonathan
> > > > >
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