Perhaps this covers your question?
http://webpy.org/cookbook/sessions_with_subapp
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Shannon Cruey <
shannon.cr...@cloudsidekick.com> wrote:
> I had this issue when I started with web.py, and I was completely new to
> Python too.
>
> Right or wrong, here's what I did. I moved on because it worked.
>
> 1) I created a file called sharedsession.py It's one line - looks like
> this:
>
> - session = None
>
> 2) in my main web.py file I do this:
>
> - import sharedsession
> - ...
> - sharedsession.session = web.session.Session(app,
> web.session.ShelfStore(shelve.open('session.shelf')))
>
> (I'm using shelf because I was having problems with the other type and
> wsgi/apache, and I don't wanna use a db.)
> Then, in all my other modules I "import sharedsession" and just reference
> 'session' there.
>
> Like I said, I'm no python expert, in fact I still don't fully understand
> "import" to this day. (It's like a black box for me... it works, it's
> magical in some ways, and I don't understand why.)
>
> If this is horribly wrong I hope someone else will warn you not to use my
> terrible idea. If it's right, you're welcome! ;-)
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Adam Bengtsson <adam...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello agian,
>>
>> I was eager to try out the session functionality in web.py but am not
>> really sure how to go about doing this. Having consulted the cookbook I've
>> found the Working with Sessions-example.
>>
>> In this example, the app-object is passed as an argument to the session
>> initialization, and the session-object is then used globally by the other
>> classes _in this file_.
>>
>> How would I go about if I wanted to initialize or at least use a session
>> object in a different file where I no longer have the app-reference? Is
>> there some obscure reference to the current application somewhere within
>> the web-package?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Adam
>>
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