Thanks Anthony, clearer than my explanation. Richard
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > BEAUTIFY is not designed to take the entire global environment. The > problem is that globals() includes all of the web2py HTML helper classes. > Because BEAUTIFY is itself an HTML helper, it is serialized by recursively > processing its components. The serialization process checks whether a given > component has a callable "xml" attribute, and assuming such an attribute is > an instance method, it attempts to call .xml(). The problem is the helper > classes themselves do have a callable "xml" attribute, but it is not > actually an instance method in that case (it is simply an attribute that > belongs to the class itself) -- so calling it generates an exception. > > You might try something like: > > BEAUTIFY({k: v for k, v in globals().iteritems() if not hasattr(v, 'xml' > )}) > > But you're probably asking for trouble attempting to display the entire > global environment. > > 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. > -- 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.
