Hi Mark, Mark Gibson wrote:

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Can anyone give me a clue, or point to a fuller example than those in the TinyTable docs please?

Say you have:

TinyTable : mytable Columns : mykey myvalue mykey myvalue --------------- "1" "One" "2" "Two"

Then:

value1 = mytable(mykey="1")[0]['myvalue'] value1 = mytable(mykey="2")[0]['myvalue']

Thanks very much - that worked first time! I now have: - container.REQUEST.SESSION.set('process_spec', container.process_spec(step='1')[0]['form_name']) ...so with your help I now have the bones of something I can automate. My only problem is that I don't /really/ understand how it works! Clearly, process_spec(step='1') is referring to the index of my TinyTable. But the significance of [0] and the way in which ['form_name'] seems to be "outside" the clause are confusing the hell out of me! Anyone kind enough to clue me in? -- Regards, PhilK Email: phil@xfr.co.uk / Voicemail & Facsimile: 07092 070518 "The lyf so short, the craft so long to learne" - Chaucer

Hi Mark, Mark Gibson wrote:

mytable() querys the tt and returns a list of dictionaries ( or at least something that implements a dictionary interface). Any query to the tt will return a list of dictionaries.

So for the above example: mytable() will return all the rows in the tt: [ { "mykey":"1", "myvalue":"One" }, { "mykey":"2", "myvalue":"Two" } ]

Given this, mytable(mykey="1") will return: [ {"mykey":"1", "myvalue":"One"}, ]

From there, you should be able to figure out what the rest of it does.

I'm going to go away and play with that - time to give "Learning Python" some more hammer! Thanks again! -- Regards, PhilK Email: phil@xfr.co.uk / Voicemail & Facsimile: 07092 070518 "The lyf so short, the craft so long to learne" - Chaucer