On 3 Sep 2013, at 11:10 AM, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote: > uhm. apart from the technicalities of global_settings, shouldn't be better to > just import current and use current.request.folder as the base folder ?
Yeah, that ought to work. I wasn't thinking along those lines, I guess. Originally, I was doing my imports at top level, and I'm not sure that there was even a request present. But I can deal with that. Thanks. > > On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 7:36:58 PM UTC+2, Jonathan Lundell 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? > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.