I know this probably isn't what you're looking to hear but I had the same problem and was able to "solve" it by running the dev server as administrator.
Another benefit to this is being able to run on :80. I'd love to hear about a better solution though... -Robert Fischer www.DealScorcher.com On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Bryce Cutt <pandas...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having an odd issue with Python 2.7 and SQLite and am wondering if > anyone has seen it or has some insight. > > I recently decided to try porting some of my Python apps to the python27 > runtime and the first step was to install Python 2.7 on my dev machine > (Windows 7 64bit). Now whenever I run an app with --use_sqlite I get the > exception "InternalError: unable to open database file" as soon as I try > to write an entity to the datastore. I have traced this back to sqlite > being unable to write some temp files to my "C:\Windows" folder (see issue > linked below). > > I have tried to detail as much as possible in my response to this issue: > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7717 > > I am a bit stumped on what to do next. For now I have gone back to > developing with Python 2.6 but that is not really a solution. > > - Bryce > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/2CCuwzuo5WYJ. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.