This should work. Nice idea.
On Jan 24, 5:00 am, jlegler <jleg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is more of a general python question but maybe someone here knows
> if my idea will work or not. I want my function to tell me when it is
> done running. Currently I return the stream so there is no obvious
> way to run code after it returns a value. I am wondering if I do a
> try: finally: statement though if I can call a function as the return
> statement completes. For instance, the following code returns a
> stream and then in the finally clause, it calls a function called
> complete. Does anyone know if this is an acceptable practice?
>
> def stream():
> import os
> if len(request.args):
> title_id = int(request.args[0])
> filename = db(db.content.id == title_id).select()
> [0].filename.replace('.mpi','.mp4')
> path = os.path.join(request.folder,'static','video',filename)
> response.headers['ContentType']="video/mp4"
> try:
> return response.stream(open(path),chunk_size=4096)
> finally:
> complete()
> else:
> redirect(URL(request.application,'default','index'))
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