[web2py] Re: global python imports

2013-06-25 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I am surprised this ever worked as you say. The proper thing to do would be to do is to write from ourlib import is_administrator In your models/db.py and it will be visible in all your models that follow db.py alphabetically and all your controllers and views. On Monday, 24 June 2013

[web2py] Re: global python imports

2013-06-24 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I am not sure what you mean. If you install a module under the modules/ folder you should be able to import it anywhere in the app. Is this not working? On Monday, 24 June 2013 13:09:59 UTC-5, Matt wrote: Previously we were able to define imports that we want shared across all our

[web2py] Re: global python imports

2013-06-24 Thread Matt
Yes, I am able to do that. But, in the __init__.py file inside the modules directory I was also able to define something like import simplejson as json (eg) and then it would act as if I imported that in all my models/controllers/modules. For a more specific example, we have a method called