On 3 Sep 2013, at 11:10 AM, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 ?
Yeah, that ought to work.
I wasn't thinking along those lines, I guess. Originally, I was doing my
imports at top level, and I'm not sure that there was even a request present.
But I can deal with that.
Thanks.
>
> 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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