On Oct 30, 4:32 am, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
> Glad to know this undocumented convention.
I think this is explained in chapter 1 of the book but I may be wrong.
> Now I understand better why
> Massimo is not eager to do validators' i18n in a class-attribute,
> because it tends to mislead developers to further adjust them and then
> possibly affect other apps. :-)
yes
> On Oct30, 11:31am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > There is a reason for UPPERCASE. All the web2py API that are defined
> > outside the thread are uppercase. Those defined in the thread are
> > lowercase. This means you should treat the uppercase ones as constants
> > and not change class attributes or your app will affect other apps.
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Oct 29, 9:42 pm, "mr.freeze" <nat...@freezable.com> wrote:
>
> > > I love web2py, but I hate the convention of all uppercase separated
> > > with commas in validators. It's like hitting a speed bump when you're
> > > doing 80. I am experimenting with converting them to camelcase in my
> > > model and it seems to work fine.
>
> > > def camelcase_validators():
> > > from gluon.validators import __all__ as all_validators
> > > cmd = ";".join([ ''.join([a.lower().capitalize() for a in v.split
> > > ("_")]) + "=" + v for v in all_validators])
> > > return cmd
>
> > > exec(camelcase_validators())
>
> > > My questions:
> > > 1) Is there a better way?
> > > 2) Is exec really that bad?
>
> > > I know it's a silly venture, but indulge me :)
>
>
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