OK, uploading to trunk. Thanks.
On Apr 8, 8:58 am, Guido Kollerie <[email protected]> wrote:
> In gluon/main.py somewhere around line 77 the variable web2py_path is
> being set as follows:
>
> web2py_path = os.environ.get('web2py_path', os.getcwd())
>
> This variable is later used to read in the file VERSION. For simply
> running web2py this works beautifully.
>
> However I'm writing a small script that's supposed to prepopulated a
> database with initial values. This script's location is:
>
> /web2py/applications/my-app/prepopulate_db.py
>
> This script does some magic to add /web2py to the sys.path so that I can
> do:
>
> from gluon.shell import exec_environment
>
> from within it. However this fails with the error:
>
> web2py_version = open(os.path.join(web2py_path, 'VERSION'),
> 'r').read()
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/web2py/
> applications/my-app/VERSION'
>
> The culprit is the os.getcwd() in web2py_path initialization. I am not
> sure why os.getcwd() is used here. Unless there's an explicit reason for
> it, could we consider changing it to?
>
> web2py_path = os.environ.get('web2py_path',
> os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')))
>
> That would allow scripts that depend on exec_environment to be run from
> anywhere instead of being forced to be run from /web2py.
>
> --
> Guido
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