>From the book <http://Functions that take arguments or start with a double 
underscore are not publicly exposed and can only be called by other 
functions.>:

*Functions that take arguments or start with a double underscore are not 
publicly exposed and can only be called by other functions*.

So this will also work:

def __testfunction():
    return 'whatever'

Anthony

On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 6:44:50 AM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote:
>
> that this function is also available from outside (ajax) and not just 
>> within my controllers
>
>
>
> def testfunction(dummy=None):
>      return dict()
>
> in a controller can't be called as a function from a web request.
>
> tl;dr: a function defined with any number of arguments isn't callable in a 
> web request.
>

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