app/shell/README
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
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Added _getSurveyRecordFor method to Survey View. This method is used by the Take view to get the right SurveyRecord for the current request. Subclassed Views that want to fetch their records in another way can override this method.
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An interactive, stateful AJAX shell that runs Python code on the server.
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Part of http://code.google.com/p/google-app-engine-samples/.
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May be run as a standalone app or in an existing app as an admin-only handler.
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Can be used for system administration tasks, as an interactive way to try out
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APIs, or as a debugging aid during development.
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The logging, os, sys, db, and users modules are imported automatically.
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Interpreter state is stored in the datastore so that variables, function
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definitions, and other values in the global and local namespaces can be used
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across commands.
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To use the shell in your app, copy shell.py, static/*, and templates/* into
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your app's source directory. Then, copy the URL handlers from app.yaml into
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your app.yaml.