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The reason for that Row thing is that it allows custom templates that do things like this:

https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#easier-custom-templates-for-table-rows

html+jinja {% for row in display_rows %} <div> <h2>{{ row["title"] }}</h2> <p>{{ row["description"] }}<lp> <p>Category: {{ row.display("category_id") }}</p> </div> {% endfor %} Is that a good design? the .display() thing feels weird - I wonder if anyone has ever actually used that.

It's documented here: https://docs.datasette.io/en/0.64.2/custom_templates.html#custom-templates

If you want to output the rendered HTML version of a column, including any links to foreign keys, you can use {{ row.display("column_name") }}.

I can't see any examples of anyone using it in this code search: https://cs.github.com/?scopeName=All+repos&scope=&q=datasette+row.display

It is however useful to have some kind of abstraction layer here that insulates the SQLite Row object, since having an extra layer will help if Datasette ever grows support for alternative database backends such as DuckDB or PostgreSQL.