After using web2py for quite a while I have an eclectic mix of utilities that I seem to be using for almost every web2py app I develop now!
I needed both a way to organize the same code across multiple web2py apps and I also wanted to share this code with the world!
Make sure to look at the source. You may find limited documentation here.
Install web2py_utils from the PyPi http://pypi.python.org/pypi
$: easy_install web2py_utils
# OR
$: pip install web2py_utils
Do a checkout of the source code
$: hg clone http://hg.thadeusb.com/Web/web2py_utils
And then you can install by using setuptools
$: cd web2py_utils
$: python setup.py develop
Note
develop will make symlinks that you can continue to work off the repository whereas install makes a copy.
Once web2py_utils is installed into the path, you should import it just like any other python module.:
import web2py_utils
From this point, you need to import everything you want explicitly. A few objects are included in the web2py_utils namespace for convenience, however most of the heavy lifters will be imported manual.
For example, to import the pagination library:
from web2py_utils.paginate import Pagination
Contents:
Unless otherwise noted... everything is
Copyright (C) 2009 Thadeus Burgess
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
If you would like to contribute to this project please feel free to contact me by email! By contributing you acknowledge that your code will be released under the GPL v3 license, unless specifically stated otherwise.
If you include any additional features to web2py_utils, please provide a patch in mercurial changeset format. Please include any documentation to accompany your code as well! The documentation uses sphinx and is in rEST format. I will not include patches unless they come with documentation on usage. If you accompany the patch with doctests and unittests will also be helpful!
To create a mercurial changeset patch, you can use the following commands
:$ # makes changes to code
:$ hg commit -u "Your Name <youremail@domain.com>" -m "Detailed description of patch"
:$ hg export tip >> /path/to/filename_describing_what_patch_does.hgchangeset.patch
You may then email the .hgchangeset.patch file directly to me.
If you are just looking to help contribute, but not sure what you can do here is a list of what still needs to be done.