No, the book warns to avoid that approach: http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#Accessing-the-API-from-Python-modules
You cannot assign the thread local object to a top-level variable in the module, as it will only be assigned once upon first import. Anthony On Sunday, December 14, 2014 7:32:29 PM UTC-5, Mark Graves wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I could use a sanity check here from the community. > > In a controller I get a record, then, I want to pass do some database > calls from a module. > > It seems that the least code I could write would be in models: > > from gluon import current > current.db = db > > Then in the module at the top > > from gluon import current > db = current.db > > The method I was using was passing the objects in directly to the function > defined in the module, but that was overly repetitive. No classes, just > functions. > > Can anyone see where I would run into problems? Is this thread safe? > > Would it be better to instantiate a class with the handler similar to what > I've seen elsewhere regarding model-less apps? > > Thanks in advance! > > -Mark > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
