Objects Visibility

It is not possible to publish a module. Either an object within the module is present in the URI or the module has an index function. Otherwise the Publisher will return a "404 Not Found" to the client. If the next script is saved as my_module.py the only way to execute it is:

http://my_site.tld/dir/path/my_module/main
http://my_site.tld/dir/path/my_module.py/main

Global variables are also visible:

http://my_site.tld/dir/path/my_module.py/s
http://my_site.tld/dir/path/my_module/s

s = """\
<html><body>
<h2>I can't be published as a module!</h2>
</body></html>
"""

def main():
   return s
   
main()

Only the objects inside the module are visible. It is not possible to call the module like:

http://my_site.tld/dir/path/my_module
http://my_site.tld/dir/path/my_module.py

Hide objects from the web

As objects inside a module can be published it may be necessary to hide some of them. If an object name starts with an underscore it will be hidden from the web.

# The _s variable is not visible
_s = """\
<html><body>
<h2>%s</h2>
</body></html>
"""

def f():
   x = 'y'
   return _s % 'f() function'
   
# The v variable is visible
v = _s % 'v variable'

In the example above the _s variable is not visible, that is it can't be shown with:

http://my_site.tld/dir/path/objects.py/_s

Web Python

Objects Visibility

Hide objects from the web