gluon/tools.py is a module and it is imported before your app is executed. The web2py globals variables are not exposed there.
On Aug 17, 4:46 pm, NetAdmin <[email protected]> wrote: > in gluon/tools.py, I'm trying to modify the register() function > to save request.vars.get('last_name', None ) to a table defined in > db.py as > db.define_table('tbextra', > SQLField('lastn', 'string', length = 15 ) > ) > but tools.py does not recognize the db part of db.tbextra.lastn > I thought variables in the model files were global. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks
