pythonically speaking, web2py is not a package, gluon is. you just have to have gluon in sys.path.
On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 12:22:20 PM UTC+2, Remco Boerma wrote: > > Hey folks. > > I want to use pydal and the validators of web2py in a virtualenv. I am > working on a seperate script and not a full blown web2py application. So no > web, just console. > Since pip install web2py produces nothing useful i do this: > > cd env > bin/activate > cd lib/site-packages > git clone https://github.com/web2py/web2py > echo '' > web2py/__init__.py > > > In the python script i can now do the following: > > import sys, os.path , web2py > > from pydal import DAL , Field > > w2p_folder, _ = os.path.split(web2py.__file__) > > > sys.path.extend((w2p_folder, os.path.join(w2p_folder,'gluon'))) > from gluon.validators import IS_IN_DB > db = DAL('sqlite://somedb_effdt.db') > > > It works, but it feels dirty. Some parts of web2py need direct access to > gluon and others to the packages inside gluon. > Anyone have a cleaner working solution or would this be as good as it > gets? > > Regards, > Remco Boerma > > -- 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.
