How would I know? When does the thread change? initialize() is called on page load, parse_command() is called via Ajax form submission on that page. If it's different threads, how do I do this? Lol.
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 5:17:22 PM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote: > > are you staying in the same thread while calling BOTH initialize and > parse_command() ? > > On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 7:46:16 PM UTC+1, Gray Kanarek wrote: >> >> I'm defining a variable in one of my modules: >> >> from gluon import * >> >> >> def initialize(): >> current.output_buffer = deque(maxlen=100) >> >> >> The problem is, when I try to access the same variable in a different >> routine in the same module, I get: >> >> def parse_command(command): >> pre_buffer = current.output_buffer >> >> -------------- >> >> AttributeError: 'thread._local' object has no attribute 'output_buffer' >> >> I thought that as long as I dealt with current.stored_variable in local >> scope, I was fine... is this not the case? Is there a better way to store a >> session-specific global variable than this? (I'm pretty new when it comes >> to web dev, so it's likely there's something I'm missing.) >> >> -- 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.

