Hi Anthony, thanks for clarifying that. I guess my question is then:
why does it work in the default application without having to do "from gluon.tools import prettydate" in the page.html view? Or more explicitly, what could cause the "prettydate" function to be in the namespace in the page.html view in the fresh default app and not in my app? thanks Vincent On Jul 20, 9:09 am, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
