I'm just getting to know Web2Py after working with Django a fair bit. I have robots that gather data that I would like to insert using the Web2Py ORM, but I can't quite figure out the right way to do that. If I put the bot scripts in the modules directory, I don't seem to have access to the ORM. When I run a module in the controllers directory, I can import from the modules directory with a simple import even though the documentation seems to say that I should use local_import... which doesn't work. And running a module in the controllers directory doesn't seem to give it access to the ORM, either.
So... I'm lost and not finding the answer in the docs. In Django, I would just put the appropriate imports in the robot scripts, but I get that that's not the Web2Py way! Can anybody point me to an example of this sort of thing - inserting data that isn't coming from a request - or give me an idea of the right way to organize it into the Web2Py structure? Thanks in advance. Nick
