OK, no worries. Thanks for clarifying. One other option that would be entirely outside the application is putting something like the following in routes.py:
from gluon.settings import global_settings global_settings.mysetting = 'some value' Then you can import and access the global settings from within the application. Anthony On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 9:05:01 PM UTC-4, Dominic Mayers wrote: > > Your description of what happened is accurate and I realize that I was > needlessly on the defensive, as if you were telling me that my question was > a bad one. There was no intention to be rude. I was just defending my > question. I realize that you simply tried to help and feel bad about my > reply. As I am new with web2py, your help is very much appreciated. I am > still looking at the WSGI middleware option. Thank you for your guidance. > > On Saturday, 18 June 2016 20:16:03 UTC-4, Anthony wrote: >> >> On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 1:35:40 PM UTC-4, Dominic Mayers wrote: >>> >>> Had I been happy with "you just have to ensure that the update mechanism >>> doesn't allow that file to be overwritten or deleted.", then I would not >>> have asked the question. >>> >> >> Hi Dominic, >> >> You seem to be new here. For future reference, note that we generally try >> to be more respectful with our responses, particularly as everyone who >> contributes here does so voluntarily. >> >> Anyway, as I noted, it was difficult to know what you would have "been >> happy with," as you did not articulate the nature of the update mechanism. >> For example, if someone sends you a zipped application folder, you could >> simply unzip it over a fixed "wrapper" application (setting the unzip >> options to prevent overwriting). Furthermore, I only offered that option as >> a possibly simpler alternative depending on your use case, already having >> explained the more robust WSGI middleware option. >> >> Anthony >> > -- 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.
