Thank you all for the replies!

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Phil Hughes <nica...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Add an argument to the function: foo(bar):  Only functions with no
> arguments can be called from the outside world.
>
>
> On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 3:57:56 AM UTC-6, Wei Li wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This could be a silly question:) . I am going to build up some
>> application logic. So I will create a few class and functions. Looks like
>> it's not very good to put these code under controllers. Although from the
>> manual, it says controller folder is for application logic and workflow.
>> See if I have a function
>>
>> def foo():
>>      return <SOME_SENSITIVE_INFORMATION>
>>
>>
>> I don't want to put this function in controllers/default.py because
>> people can see the return value of foo() through 
>> http://myapp/default/foowhich is not expected. I just want foo() to be a 
>> normal function instead of
>> a controller function.
>>
>> So my question is where is the best place to put my own application
>> logical codes indeed? There are three places that I can put python codes
>> into:
>>
>>
>>    - *models* describe a representation of the data as database tables
>>    and relations between tables.
>>    - *controllers* describe the application logic and workflow.
>>    - *modules *are other optional Python modules.
>>
>>
>> Looks like to me *modules *is the best place. But the new problem is the
>> global objects and classes are not visible to files in modules unlike files
>> in models/controllers. I am not sure which packages need to be imported. It
>> will be convenient if *modules *folder can be treated same as
>> models/controllers?
>>
>> Any suggestion is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wei
>>
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