when i append gluon to the sys.path and try to import it doesnt work because its unable to find it. I am installing web2py via pip. THanks for the help too guys. appreciate it.
On Apr 29, 12:01 pm, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/4/29 Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]>: > > > On Apr 29, 2011, at 7:19 AM, luckysmack wrote: > > >> Yea im using 11.04 which just released. So its probably just that it > >> hasnt been updated yet. ill check out that one package until it shows > >> up in the repo and try to update to that. I know theyre all in line > >> with each other but ive seen a few times where a package showed up in > >> debian but not ubuntu, not sure what they were but i think they were > >> pretty esoteric packages. Anyways, thanks. Ill just get the linked > >> one. > > > The actual problem may be different from how it appears. Adding the path to > > gluon to sys.path ought to work fine as far as it goes, but web2py > > generally expects to be started from its own directory. > > > What happens exactly when you add gluon to sys.path and attempt an import? > > What you can expect: you have available all the gluon modules and > functions. Remember you can use dal or the html parser for non-web2py > projects. > > On the other hand, you can start web2py from any directory passing the > -f parameter. Having gluon available in the sys.path you only need to > pass to web2py the applications directory path. No other files or > directories are needed. That's the way Debian package works and there > are not known problems with it. > > Regards. > > > > > > > > > > >> On Apr 29, 1:45 am, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> 2011/4/29 luckysmack <[email protected]>: > > >>>> python-gluon and python-web2py dont seem to be in the ubuntu repos. I > >>>> found a .deb file herehttp://pkgs.org/package/python-gluonbuti want > >>>> to get some feedback first if anyone knows a better way. a few quick > >>>> searches didnt show anything about adding a repo to ubuntu to make it > >>>> available. > > >>> Ubuntu is a debian derivative. Ubuntu people sync their packages from > >>> Debian unstable repository periodically. > >>> Web2py packages are in Debian since less than a couple of weeks. > >>> Ubuntu released a new version yesterday, so I supposse they'll take > >>> the packages soon. The packages that are in Debian are exactly the > >>> same that Ubuntu will take, so you can use them if you're using a > >>> recent Ubuntu version, because Ubuntu is not going to modify them. > > >>> Regards. > >>> José L. > > >>>> On Apr 28, 10:50 pm, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez <[email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> 2011/4/29 luckysmack <[email protected]>: > > >>>>>> Pretty much like the title says. This is also for things like when i > >>>>>> open up a i/b/python shell, it would be cool to just be able to run > >>>>>> 'import gluon' or 'from gluon import foo'. Im sure this would also > >>>>>> have other benefits as well, but im not sure. I tried doing 'import > >>>>>> sys' and 'sys.path.append("/srv/sites/web2py/gluon")' but that didnt > >>>>>> seem to work. i also tried it without the/gluon part. Is it worth it > >>>>>> to do this? otherwise i can get the effect by opening a terminal and > >>>>>> going to the web2py directory, opening the python shell and importing > >>>>>> like that. This culd also be handy when running python scripts that > >>>>>> are in different places on the system and wanting to be able to import > >>>>>> something from gluon. > > >>>>> Using a Debian distribution (or any of its derivatives) you can > >>>>> install the debian package python-gluon > >>>>> (http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/web2py.html) . When installing it, > >>>>> gluon is available in the python path. > > >>>>> Regards.
