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-rw-r--r--wqflask/utility/tools.py15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/wqflask/utility/tools.py b/wqflask/utility/tools.py
index 23d6fb62..df032e48 100644
--- a/wqflask/utility/tools.py
+++ b/wqflask/utility/tools.py
@@ -113,6 +113,16 @@ def assert_dir(dir):
raise Exception("ERROR: can not find directory "+dir)
return dir
+def assert_writable_dir(dir):
+ try:
+ fn = dir + "/test.txt"
+ fh = open( fn, 'w' )
+ fh.write("I am writing this text to the file\n")
+ fh.close()
+ os.remove(fn)
+ except IOError:
+ raise Exception('Unable to write test.txt to directory ' + dir )
+ return dir
def mk_dir(dir):
if not valid_path(dir):
@@ -187,6 +197,7 @@ def show_settings():
# Cached values
+GN_VERSION = get_setting('GN_VERSION')
HOME = get_setting('HOME')
WEBSERVER_MODE = get_setting('WEBSERVER_MODE')
GN_SERVER_URL = get_setting('GN_SERVER_URL')
@@ -205,7 +216,7 @@ GENENETWORK_FILES = get_setting('GENENETWORK_FILES')
PYLMM_COMMAND = pylmm_command()
GEMMA_COMMAND = gemma_command()
PLINK_COMMAND = plink_command()
-TEMPDIR = tempdir()
+TEMPDIR = tempdir() # defaults to UNIX TMPDIR
from six import string_types
@@ -221,3 +232,5 @@ if os.environ.get('WQFLASK_OVERRIDES'):
else:
OVERRIDES[k] = cmd
logger.debug(OVERRIDES)
+
+assert_dir(get_setting("TWITTER_POST_FETCHER_JS_PATH"))