Both the custom importer and the 'current' object are relatively new (added since book's last major revision), so they're not documented yet (except in this mailing list). Prior to that, it was of course possible to use modules, but not quite as easy. The book will be revised soon, so these things will be documented.
Anthony On Sunday, September 25, 2011 9:32:24 PM UTC-4, monotasker wrote: > > This is great. Thanks again Anthony. > > I'm surprised that this approach doesn't seem to be well documented in the > (generally outstanding) web2py book. Is it not encouraged as 'the web2py > way' or is it taken for granted that people with Python knowledge can figure > it out? (Or have I just missed it in there?) > > Ian > >