On Mar 31, 2011, at 1:02 PM, VP wrote:
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> I should have written "directory names" instead of "file names" (even
> though they are related).
>
> The conflict is apparent when web2py and other things (Apache, etc.)
> work together. For example, Apache routes the static files whereas
> web2py routes the dynamic things.
>
> When you say URL('static', 'style.css'), web2py will assume that app-
> names should be converted to hyphens. But its routing will interfere
> with the conventional assumption of Apache, which is underscores are
> meant to be underscores.
In that case, you'd either want to turn off hyphen translation or use the
Apache rewrite function.
BTW, I see that web2py's local_import function uses the application name as
part of a module name. So app names must be legal Python module identifiers.
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> On Mar 31, 2:52 pm, VP <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I guess I can see leaving the default to re-map hyphens to underscores but
>>> perhaps only on functions?
>>
>> YES.
>>
>> App names are file names, and people generally don't want to have
>> hyphens in their file names, which is the opposite of what they would
>> want for URLs.
>>
>> As for app names, I think they should be left alone because the
>> typical convention for file naming is underscored, which is the
>> opposite of what is desired for URLs. In other words, if people name
>> their files with underscores, it wouldn't be reasonable to assume they
>> want hyphens.
