You're right, this is true throughout web2py.
On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:28:50 AM UTC-5, Chris wrote: > > Just had a little surprise -- feels like a bug to me but let's hear > from the experts. > > Having read in the web2py book that models are executed in name-sort > order, I changed the names of my model files to have more explicit > ordering -- from db.py and appconfig.py to 100-db.py and 000- > appconfig.py. Next run of my app had many errors. Changed the names > back, all is well. Tried 000appconfig.py and 100db.py, also fine. > The hyphen was the proximate cause of the problem. > > Took a look at gluon source -- the root cause seems to be this: > > models = listdir(path, '^\w+\.py$',0,sort=False) > > > This re spec (using \w) only matches file names using a-z, A-Z, 0-9 > plus _ ... no match on hyphen > > Generalizing a bit. It seems like compileapp.py uses inconsistent > specs with listdir(). compile_models and compile_controllers use '.+ > \.py$', which will match any file name up to the '.py' part. > compile_views does something more complicated (I don't really > understand the re spec) but it includes \w . run_models uses '^w+\.py > $', which is more restrictive than what compile_models uses. > > The same could be true in other gluon modules -- I didn't look > further. I'm using version 1.99.2 > > In summary, it seems like web2py doesn't have a consistent rule for > what file names are allowed in the compile & run subfolders (models, > controllers, views). If true -- this could lead to subtle bugs and > hard-to-diagnose problems. If true -- would it make sense to adopt > one consistent allowable-name convention for all web2py files, or be > explicit about the current rules and issue log warnings when a file in > a standard directory is being skipped over due to file name not > matching the convention? > > Personally I kind of like the option to rename a file and have it not > execute -- kind of like commenting out a file rather than having to > move in & out of the standard folders. If the current approach should > persist, then my personal practice will be to add a leading hyphen to > file names to "comment out". > > Thanks all
