Rather than have your module code read a text file, you might also consider putting the data directly into the module itself (unless you need the text file to keep the data in a format more friendly to human editing):
MY_LIST = [ ['item 1', 'item 2', 'etc.'], ... ] Anthony On Saturday, July 26, 2014 10:13:00 AM UTC-4, lucas wrote: > > i have it in a module and under that module i have the variable setup as a > global variable. wherein, if the variable is empty upon using it, i load > the list of lists from a text file. if it is not empty, then i just use > it. so in that case, is there just the single instance in memory, no > matter the number of users or sessions? thanx, lucas > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.