On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM, ctalley<[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks guys. Yarko, you are nothing if not prolific - all I ever > wanted to know and more. :-) > > I just felt like there must be some mechanism to tell python where to > find files from the command prompt short of typing the entire path and > that I was missing something. I didn't really think pythonpath or > sys.path were the right answer, but hey it was worth a shot. > > But this does work (I tried it)... > python %web2pypath%\web2py.py --upgrade yes > > The only catch is that web2pypath has to be in the "short name" format > (limit of 8 characters per path segment, no spaces, etc.). > > So in my case, this... > > C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\w2p\web2py source\web2py
the problem with this, I suspect, is not the "short path" is needed - it is that spaces are in the command line, so python is seeing four command line paramaters in this (not one).... Try, instead, python "%web2pypath%"/web2py.py -upgrade yes > > looks like this... > > C:\DOCUME~1\user\MYDOCU~1\w2p\WEB2PY~2\web2py > > > On Aug 26, 5:32 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote: >> .... >> >> >> >> >> I've added the web2py.py path to sys.path using sys.path.append and >> >> verified using print sys.path >> >> > Again - this would have an effect if you wrote a script that did >> > "import web2py" - but since web2py isn't a module (rather an >> > application) this is of little use. >> >> sorry - this is wrong (I was thinking ahead too fast); >> >> what sys.path does is the same thing as setting your windows PATH >> environment, but modifying only the current processes' copy of the >> execution environment (e.g. it is lost after that process exits). >> >> So if you type "set" in a windows command (or "env" in unix/linux) you >> will see your sys environment variables; same for inside a running >> pythong script - if you import sys, then the python interface for that >> environment is as you show, and you can extend / modify it in your >> running process. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
