Question: So, within a webapp.RequestHandler subclass I would use `self.request.uri` to get the request URI. But, I can't access this outside of a RequestHandler and so no go. Any ideas?

I'm running Python and I'm new at it as well as GAE.

Answer: 
You should generally be doing everything within some sort of RequestHandler or the equivalent in your non-WebApp framework. However, if you really **insist** on being stuck in the early 1990s and writing plain CGI scripts, the environment variables SERVER\_NAME and PATH\_INFO may be what you want; see a CGI reference for more info.
Since using request outside code handling it is meaningless I assume you'd like to access it from some method called by handler without passing request to it. Your choices are:

1. Refactor code so that request is passed to it.
2. When the former is not possible use a hack by defining a global [`threading.local()`](http://docs.python.org/library/threading.html#threading.local), storing request somewhere in request handler and access it in your method.