uhm. apart from the technicalities of global_settings, shouldn't be better
to just import current and use current.request.folder as the base folder ?
On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 7:36:58 PM UTC+2, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>
> I have a module in my app's modules/ directory that needs a path to a file
> in private/ at import time (so I can't pass the path in).
>
> Using fileutils.abspath, I have to write:
>
> > abspath('applications', 'watchup', 'private', filename)
>
>
> presumably because in abspath:
>
> > return os.path.join(global_settings.applications_parent, path)
>
>
> ...global_settings is empty at import time? (I haven't looked explicitly.)
>
> I'd rather not hard-code the application name into the module, of course,
> though it's not a huge hardship in this case.
>
> I don't quite understand why this isn't working. I'm calling import in the
> context of a request, so I'd think that I'd get the whole path without
> having to pass in the 'applications/appname' portion.
>
> What am I missing?
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