On Apr 1, 3:07 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote: > Massimo can explain to you how this happens, but this is not a problem > - it's a feature:
... that is, gluon/dal.py trys to import psycopg2 as it builds up a list of available drivers; you just can't see psycopg2, and that's a good thing. If you want to deal w/ psycopg2 directly, don't use DAL - do your own talking to the DB, you can... but one _or_ the other. - y > > From your web2py directory, if you do: > > python web2py.py -S welcome -M > > to get a web2py application context shell, with your models imported, > you also get: > > In [1]: psycopg2 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > NameError Traceback (most recent call > last) > .../web2py-dev/<ipython console> in <module>() > > NameError: name 'psycopg2' is not defined > > Since, if you were messing with psycopg2, you would be competing with > DAL, it's a good thing to discourage you from doing so. > > If you _really_ want to, your model can also do "import psycopg2" and > this will "solve your problem" - but I do not recommend doing this. > > If your concern is "can I connect to a postgres db?" --- then to a > try/except around db= DAL(DBURI), where DBURI is an appropriate > connection string. > > Regards, > - Yarko > > On Apr 1, 2:48 pm, Richie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I can import psycopg2 from a python shell, but I'm getting "NameError: > > global name 'psycopg2' is not defined" when I try to access my default > > controller. I'm setup with Apache and MOD WSGI. Anyone got any ideas? > > > Thanks! > > > Rich -- 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.
