Awesome. Thanks so much for the rapid response and advice Nick and
Greg! Will look into both solutions.

It's for goofy, short-term, requirement (basically, client wants to
run it locally, and needs output on the file system to look at and
ingest into another software interface). We'll be writing a daemon
outside App Engine to handle this in the longer-term.

Gerad

On Jun 23, 7:11 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Gerad,
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> While it's possible to do this, as other posters point out, it involves
> reaching into the internals of the dev_appserver in ways that may break in
> future. You haven't specified why you need to do this, but it seems likely
> that writing an external script that does what you need and running it
> outside the dev_appserver is a better option. External scripts can even
> access your local or production datastore - see the remote_api_shell.py for
> an example.
>
> -Nick Johnson
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> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Gerad Suyderhoud <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Long story, but... I need to be able to write to the filesystem when
> > running the development appserver.
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> > Anybody know of a way to get around Google's monkey patches preventing
> > this? (Again, I only need to do this in development).
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> > Notes:
> > 1. Yes, I truly do need to write to the file system (file gets picked
> > up by another service).
> > 2. No, it doesn't need file system write access in production.
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> > Thanks in advance for any help
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