On 3 Sep 2013, at 10:36 AM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I have a module in my app's modules/ directory that needs a path to a file in
> private/ at import time (so I can't pass the path in).
>
> Using fileutils.abspath, I have to write:
>
>> abspath('applications', 'watchup', 'private', filename)
>
>
> presumably because in abspath:
>
>> return os.path.join(global_settings.applications_parent, path)
>
>
> ...global_settings is empty at import time? (I haven't looked explicitly.)
>
> I'd rather not hard-code the application name into the module, of course,
> though it's not a huge hardship in this case.
>
> I don't quite understand why this isn't working. I'm calling import in the
> context of a request, so I'd think that I'd get the whole path without having
> to pass in the 'applications/appname' portion.
>
> What am I missing?
Well, this for one thing: that's what application_parent is supposed to be. So
the code is working as intended; I just need a way of determining the
application name.
I suppose I could use __file__ ...
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