Hello all,
Have just joined this group, and this is my first post. I have
actually been following web2py since year 2009. At that time, I was
deciding which language and which webapp framework to use. Web2py is
the one I have chosen and I have been spending a lot of time on it.
This is my first question here, since I can't find the answer/
confirmation in Google search.
I am trying to add Pygments script as part of my webapp so that its
functionality can be called in my controllers.
First of all I try adding the pygments folder to my specific app's /
modules folder, and do a local_import('pygments', reload=True) in my
models/db.py file.
Following that, I put in this sample code (the sample expected output
as per the pygments quickstart page.)
( http://pygments.org/docs/quickstart/ )
from pygments import highlight
from pygments.lexers import PythonLexer
from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
code = 'print "Hello World"'
print highlight(code, PythonLexer(), HtmlFormatter())
I get a couple of errors here.
1. Inside the pygments' folder original __init__.py file , there is
this line
>> from pygments.util import StringIO, BytesIO
ImportError: No module named pygments.util
Here, the reference to "pygments.util" will cause an error? Which I
solved by renaming it to simply "util".
But on to next line...
2. After doing that, I get an error on the next lines,
>>from pygments.lexers import PythonLexer
'module' object has no attribute 'lexers'.
Eventually I got everything working by giving up on putting pygments
in modules/ -- as I intended to ,
and instead (reluctantly) put it in the web2pySource's /site-packages
folder.
Q. My question is -- does this mean that code placed in the modules/
folder and imported through 'local_import', is not actually able to be
100% equivalent as having the original script installed in the python
environment(not an option for me) or putting it as a global web2py
site-package?
Just want to confirm that there is a difference in putting a script
package in app/modules compared to putting it in the global web2py
source site-packages. Thanks.
