Let us know what else you find out.

On Feb 20, 3:18 pm, reyelts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Massimo, You're correct that, though a better approach, switching to
> os.path.join() didn't have any effect.
>
> According to appcfg.py, my files are uploaded:
>
>    2010-02-20 12:20:39,608 INFO appcfg.py:1426 Processing file
> 'applications/canyonezt/static/COMP_profile.xml'
>
> And I confirmed that with wget 
> (wgethttp://1-0-test2.latest.canyonezt.appspot.com/canyonezt/static/COMP_p...)...
> it returns my file as expected. So, the file exists.
>
> For all who care, the GAE documentation (http://code.google.com/
> appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html) clearly states you *can*
> read but not write:
>
>    An application cannot write to the file system. An app can read
> files, but only files uploaded with the application
>    code. The app must use the App Engine datastore, memcache or other
> services for all data that persists
>    between requests.
>
> Out of curiosity, I emitted os.listdir('.') output to logging.debug()
> to see what was to be seen. It showed what one would expect, including
> the the applications directory. But os.listdir('./applications') shows
> no output. I then moved my file to the the root directory of the GAE
> application and, voila, I can read the file. So, it seems we can read
> from the current working directory of the GAE process, but not its
> subdirectories. This limitation does not appear to be imposed by
> dev_appserver.py: it only shows up when you upload to production GAE.
> Very strange.
>
> Well, I'm off to the GAE user group. Thx, TonyR
>
> ============================================
>
> As a side note, while researching whether my files were uploaded
> above, I noticed that appcfg.py seems not to respect
> "(applications/.*?/databases/.*)" in app.yaml. Here's some appcfg.py
> output demonstrating that fact:
>
>    2010-02-20 12:21:01,092 INFO appcfg.py:1426 Processing file
> 'applications/canyonezt/databases/
> c8b669d15150d7109e5f7ab36744a5b7_auth_user.table'
>    2010-02-20 12:21:01,108 INFO appcfg.py:1426 Processing file
> 'applications/canyonezt/databases/
> c8b669d15150d7109e5f7ab36744a5b7_auth_group.table'
>    2010-02-20 12:21:01,125 INFO appcfg.py:1426 Processing file
> 'applications/canyonezt/databases/
> c8b669d15150d7109e5f7ab36744a5b7_auth_membership.table'
>    2010-02-20 12:21:01,140 INFO appcfg.py:1426 Processing file
> 'applications/canyonezt/databases/
> c8b669d15150d7109e5f7ab36744a5b7_auth_permission.table'
>    2010-02-20 12:21:01,155 INFO appcfg.py:1426 Processing file
> 'applications/canyonezt/databases/
> c8b669d15150d7109e5f7ab36744a5b7_auth_event.table'
>
> This seems odd, since it *does* respect "(applications/.*?/
> sessions/.*)" in app.yaml
>
>    2010-02-20 12:20:55,171 INFO appcfg.py:1499 Ignoring file
> 'applications/canyonezt/sessions/192-168-1-1-f3c819be-cf8a-4826-
> ac3b-44501e56a3fe': File matches ignore regex.
>    2010-02-20 12:20:55,171 INFO appcfg.py:1499 Ignoring file
> 'applications/canyonezt/sessions/192-168-1-1-09c93858-6160-4e5c-8b8c-
> def2c55fa37f': File matches ignore regex.
>
> It also might be worthwhile to go through all of the appcfg.py output
> and add some more stuff the skip list in app.yaml. For example,
> there's not much point in uploading things like the README. I'll see
> if I can come up with a list later on this weekend.

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