I guess it is referring to the packing/installation of *.w2p files via the admin interface. Only files under the app's dir would be packed, therefore site-packages would have to be installed outside that mechanism.
By using Dropbox you are not relying on the admin interface for the mentioned "portability" feature. On Friday, August 17, 2012 9:38:26 PM UTC+1, curiouslearn wrote: > > Thanks pbreit and weheh. > > I looked at the link give by pbreit. It says the following: > > "applications requiring site-packages are not portable unless these > modules are installed separately." > > What exactly does it mean they are not portable? For example, as of now my > application which lives in a dropbox folder synced with pythonanywhere, > works great on pythonanywhere. Would that stop working? > > Thanks. > > On Friday, August 17, 2012 8:22:43 AM UTC-4, weheh wrote: >> >> CSS belongs under static. Packages and common routines belong under >> modules and are "import"ed. You could have a common static and modules and >> symbolically link. I have never done that, but it makes sense. >> >> I suppose you could also put the CSS just about anywhere on the file >> system. And modules could be put under the python package library and >> imported from there. I haven't tried that, but seems like it would work. >> >> On Friday, August 17, 2012 11:57:02 AM UTC+8, curiouslearn wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> What is the recommended place in web2py folder where I should store >>> custom functions that are useful to multiple applications? For example, >>> suppose I have a function such as the following: >>> >>> *def connecttodb():* >>> * if request.is_local:* >>> * user="user"* >>> * passwd="passed"* >>> * host="localhost"* >>> * else:* >>> * user="user_nonlocal"* >>> * passwd="passwd_nonlocal"* >>> * host="nonlocalhost"* >>> * con = mdb.connect(user=user,* >>> * passwd=passwd,* >>> * host=host)* >>> * c = con.cursor()* >>> * return con, c* >>> >>> >>> I will need this in every application. Further, if I decide to change >>> the host, I have to go and change the values in every application. There >>> are other useful functions common to all applications. Can I just store >>> them in one folder and import them, so that they work both on local and web >>> hosts? If so, where do you recommend I save them? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >> --
