Sure, you can access the same database from multiple applications (web2py or not).
On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 6:29:30 PM UTC-4, jim kaubisch wrote: > > Thanks, I think you're right. But its working now, so I'll revisit it once > the delivery heat is off. > > Please, on the related topic of my other post, I'm I missing something by > thinking I should be able to access the SAME mysql db both from web2py as > well as a standard Python program, assuming the same version of DAL? > In fact, the web2py app creates the db and uses it fine, but the > standalone app claims it can't connect to it. > > I haven't tried it, but what about 2 web2py apps? Can they access the same > (mysql) db > > Thanks > > On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 12:56:23 PM UTC-7, Anthony wrote: >> >> As I was developing the app, I realized that I was writing basically the >>> same code over and over and over, just with slight differences, e.g. the >>> table name, the criteria, the fields I wanted to return and their display >>> order... >>> so a couple of dictionaries to define (1) the tableviews criteria and >>> (2) ordered list of fields to return and the core becomes a small >>> parameterization of basically the same db query - 10s of lines of code. >>> >> >> Sounds like something you could handle by abstracting everything into a >> special function and maybe using Python argument unpacking: >> >> db(db.table).select(*list_of_fields, **dictonary_of_named_arguments) >> >> 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.
