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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