There is a thread per request. An Ajax for submission happens in a separate request from the request for the page that contains the form. If you need to store data that persists between requests, put it in the session (which you can access in a module via current.session).
Anthony On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 5:30:39 PM UTC-4, Gray Kanarek wrote: > > 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.
