The current Object

The current object holds thread-local global variables. It can be imported into any context:

from gluon import current

Objects accessible through current

Attribute	Type	Explanation
current.db	DAL	the database
current.s3db	DataModel	the model loader
current.deployment_settings	S3Config	deployment settings
current.auth	AuthS3	global authentication/authorisation service
current.gis	GIS	global GIS service
current.msg	S3Msg	global messaging service
current.xml	S3XML	global XML decoder/encoder service
current.request	Request	web2py’s global request object
current.response	Response	web2py’s global response object
current.T	TranslatorFactory	String Translator (for i18n)
current.messages	Messages	Common labels (internationalised)
current.ERROR	Messages	Common error messages (internationalised)