On Apr 29, 2011, at 5:56 PM, luckysmack wrote: > > 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.
What exactly are you trying to import? > > On Apr 29, 12:01 pm, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez <jredr...@debian.org> > wrote: >> 2011/4/29 Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com>: >> >>> 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 <jredr...@debian.org> >>>> wrote: >>>>> 2011/4/29 luckysmack <luckysm...@gmail.com>: >> >>>>>> 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 <jredr...@debian.org> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> 2011/4/29 luckysmack <luckysm...@gmail.com>: >> >>>>>>>> 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.
