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<h1 class="epydoc">Class Rows</h1><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.dal-pysrc.html#Rows">source&nbsp;code</a></span><br /><br />
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A wrapper for the return value of a select. It basically represents a 
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  serializes the table into a csv file
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        <span class="sig-arg">storage_to_dict</span>=<span class="sig-default">True</span>,
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  returns the data as a list or dictionary. :param storage_to_dict: when
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  <p>returns the data as a dictionary of dictionaries 
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  :param key: the name of the field to be used as dict key, normally the
  id :param compact: ? (default True) :param storage_to_dict: when True 
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export data to csv, the first line contains the column names

:param ofile: where the csv must be exported to
:param null: how null values must be represented (default '&lt;NULL&gt;')
:param delimiter: delimiter to separate values (default ',')
:param quotechar: character to use to quote string values (default '&quot;')
:param quoting: quote system, use csv.QUOTE_*** (default csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
:param represent: use the fields .represent value (default False)
:param colnames: list of column names to use (default self.colnames)
                 This will only work when exporting rows objects!!!!
                 DO NOT use this with db.export_to_csv()

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