I've working with web2py for a little while now (loving it!), and been poking through a few appliances, especially Instant Press!) to puzzle out how things work. This is probably a basic Python question, or maybe it's something about web2py, so here goes.
I noticed that in instant Press, the application uses a top-level class (superclass?) to load it's modules and their associated models (the _i2p.py file in the models folder), and this class is instantiated in db.py. I was trying to follow this pattern, and noticed that if I don't prefix the file name with an underscore (e.g. myclass.py), it isn't available, but as soon as I add that underscore to the filename (e.g. _myclass.py) it works. Why is this? All I could find in the Python documentation was mention that functions that begin with an underscore are not loaded during " from myclass import * ". Thanks in advance!
