You should be able to do this as long as Y is in the same folder
(modules/) as X. The current folder is always searched before the
pythonpath.
On Aug 12, 2:40 pm, Ahmed Soliman <ah...@farghal.com> wrote:
> Another problem is that I cannot *easily* import other modules from my
> modules in modules/ :)
>
> this means that if I have module X in modules/ and module Y
> I cannot do this while in X
> import Y
>
> because the cwd is web2py/ so, I have to import by the application
> name again, and as "request" is not defined there I have no clue
> except including the application name in the import which limits my
> deployment options, do we have a solution to this?
>
> I'm planning on creating a large web application with web2py and I'm
> doing extensive playing with it and that include reading alot in the
> source code to be sure that it's the right tool for me, so, for a
> large project modularization is quite important and if I couldn't
> modularize my project into modules and create a suitable directory
> structure in modules/ that allows me to organize my work, then it
> might be a serious problem because I'll end up writing everything in
> the wrong place.
>
> Ahmed
>
> On Aug 12, 9:22 pm, Ahmed Soliman <ah...@farghal.com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 12, 5:14 pm, DenesL <denes1...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> > > To avoid restarting web2py after making changes use:
>
> > > exec('from applications.%s.modules.yourmodule import X'
> > > %request.application)
> > > reload(X) # remove for production
>
> > > Denes.
>
> > This doesn't work, did you try that? the reason is that X is probably
> > a class and you cannot reload a class, you need a module object there.
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