I encountered the same error because I tried to point the handler.script field in app.yaml to web2py.py. I changed to gaehandler.py and it worked.
So in app.yaml instead of - handlers: - url: .* script: web2py.py I used - handlers: - url: .* script: gaehandler.py Hope that helps. Regards, Arbie On Mar 24, 10:19 am, Web2py Newbie <swiawte...@garrifulio.mailexpire.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have done a short app (actually just a couple of web pages strung > together) that I wanted to load to the google app engine. When I try > to hook up web2py: python2.5 dev_appserver.py web2py > the app starts, but fails when I load the page in a browser: > > ERROR 2011-03-23 23:00:16,549 dev_appserver.py:3285] Exception > encountered handling request > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/data-current/programming/python/gae/google_appengine/google/ > appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 3245, in _HandleRequest > self._Dispatch(dispatcher, self.rfile, outfile, env_dict) > File "/data-current/programming/python/gae/google_appengine/google/ > appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 3186, in _Dispatch > base_env_dict=env_dict) > File "/data-current/programming/python/gae/google_appengine/google/ > appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 531, in Dispatch > base_env_dict=base_env_dict) > File "/data-current/programming/python/gae/google_appengine/google/ > appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 2410, in Dispatch > self._module_dict) > File "/data-current/programming/python/gae/google_appengine/google/ > appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 2320, in ExecuteCGI > reset_modules = exec_script(handler_path, cgi_path, hook) > File "/data-current/programming/python/gae/google_appengine/google/ > appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py", line 2216, in ExecuteOrImportScript > exec module_code in script_module.__dict__ > File "/data-current/programming/python/gae/web2py/web2py.py", line > 9, in <module> > os.chdir(path) > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'chdir' > > Any ideas on what's going on/how to fix? > web2py version is most recent stable from the website this morning > (1.94.5) > Python version is Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Mar 24 2011, 09:36:33), > but I get the same failure using python2.6 > > Brendan
