diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 9ac82f3d..e1103116 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.00.0 (2012-08-05 19:52:16) dev
+Version 2.00.0 (2012-08-05 21:19:55) dev
diff --git a/gluon/contrib/populate.py b/gluon/contrib/populate.py
index 7e93c3f0..813753c2 100644
--- a/gluon/contrib/populate.py
+++ b/gluon/contrib/populate.py
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ def populate(table, n, default=True, compute=False):
                         ids[tablename] = [x.id for x in table._db(table._db[field.type[15:]].id>0).select()]
                 n = len(ids[tablename])
                 if n:
-                    record[fieldname] = [item[0] for item in random.sample(ids[tablename], random.randint(0,n-1)/2)]
+                    record[fieldname] = [item for item in random.sample(ids[tablename], random.randint(0,n-1)/2)]
                 else:
                     record[fieldname] = 0
             elif field.type=='list:string' and hasattr(field.requires,'options'):