The only way is if you pass the dal instance as an argument to your function calls.
do_something(db) a_class = MyClass(db, request, response) -- Thadeus On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:04 PM, sethford <sethfor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there is a way to access the db from a module? I know you can > import the DAL from looking at: > > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/a78a04016d0dd737/d0e4792976294ec6?show_docid=d0e4792976294ec6 > > but it appears this only works to create a new db altogether and I > would like to have access to the same db I use in my controllers. Am I > just doing this wrong or is there another way to do it? >