Sounds like an error in the docs. In the particular case of
``url_for``, John's suggestion is probably what you want. Other "built
in" helpers can be found in the WebHelpers package. In earlier
versions of Pylons, helpers.py included these imports for you; now,
you import the ones you want.

On Mar 16, 3:36 pm, edgarsmolow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, John, but that's not my question.
> My question is not about how to access functions in the module.  My
> question is about why the documentation talks about using the url_for
> () function, but it is not present in the module.  Are we expected to
> write it ourselves, or was there a problem in the WAY I set up the
> application?  For instance, perhaps I missed a step...
>
> Thanks.
> Edgar
>
> On Mar 16, 5:14 pm, John Dickson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Edgar
>
> > You normally add the imports you want to helpers.py, which then makes them
> > available as "h.some_import".  For example, I use the following line to get
> > the url_for() function:
>
> >   from routes import url_for
>
> > Cheers ........................ JD
>
> > 2009/3/17 edgarsmolow <[email protected]>
>
> > > I recently began development with Pylons 0.9.7.  The online docs
> > > suggest using a function called url_for that should be in
> > > myproject.lib.helpers.py.  But, the file is essentially empty.
>
> > > Is helpers.py supposed to come with any functions at all, or are we
> > > supposed to write url_for (and any others mentioned in the docs)?
>
> > > Thanks.
> > > Edgar
>
> > --
> >    /Angle-parked in a parallel universe.../
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