On Feb 14, 2011, at 7:28 AM, howesc wrote: > is this a new bug in the sys.path handling? it has not be a problem for me, > and i think i am using it as recently as 1.91.6. > > also, are you restarting GAE each time you change those files? GAE > dev_appserver caches a bunch of stuff. i find that if i am editing any of > the web2py core files, modules, or included view files i have to restart > dev_appserver so that i can see the changes. This is different then pretty > much any other webserver i have run with.
It's a GAE local-running bug, I think. I reported it: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4571 Short version: changes to sys.path made from a module body are lost after the first page load when running locally, but not when deployed to GAE.

