On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 8:11:56 AM UTC-4, Vincent wrote: > > after some digging around I found the prettydate function in > gluon.tools. > > If I "from gluon.tools import prettydate" directly in the page.html > view I no longer get an error. If I do the same thing but only in the > controller it still does not work.
The views are not run in the same context as the controller, so if you import a module in a controller, it will not be available in the view. Anthony