Re: questions

ah, it's because your days are really ints, but "day" is a string

the value of "default" needs to match one of the actual values by
python's equality rules, and 

1 != '1'

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:55:38 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
<[email protected]> said:
> The html generated is:
> <select name="day" id="day"><option value="1">1</option><option 
> value="2">2</option><option value="3">3</option><option 
> value="4">4</option><option value="5">5</option></select></td>
> 
> On Friday 27 October 2006 13:51, you wrote:
> > What html is being generated for the select?
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:15:46 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
> >
> > <[email protected]> said:
> > > Hello again,
> > > Sorry I should have put this question in with the other one. I have
> > > created a
> > > drop down menu using the following code:
> > > <SNIP>
> > > [[id = session.get('id')]]
> > > [[unit = db.timetable.selectone_by(id=id)]]
> > > [[day = str(unit.day)]]
> > > [[all1=db.timetable.select(db.timetable.c.starttime=='09:00',
> > > distinct=True)]]
> > > <SNIP>
> > > <f:form>
> > > <SNIP>
> > > <f:select name=day data="[(L.day,L.day) for L in all1]" default="=day" />
> > > <SNIP>
> > > </f:form>
> > > However the default option does not seem to be working. Can anyone shed
> > > some
> > > light on why this might be so?
> > > thanks in advance,
> > > MJ
> > >
> > > Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > > > you can, but SqlSoup won't turn it into objects for you...
> > > >
> > > > use db.timetable._table to get the underlying SqlAlchemy table object,
> > > > with which you can do lower-level selects
> > > > (see http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/sqlconstruction.myt -- further
> > > > questions on that are better directed to the SA mailing list)
> > > >
> > > > or, just grab db.engine and write raw sql
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:30:53 +0100, "Mary Jane Boholst"
> > > >
> > > > <[email protected]> said:
> > > >> does that mean that I cannot do the SQL "select distinct day from
> > > >> timetable;" which is what I was trying to achieve?
> > > >> Thanks again.
> > > >> MJ
> > > >>
> > > >> Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> > > >>> 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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