diff --git a/applications/admin/models/0.py b/applications/admin/models/0.py
index adf95f7f..d9f8d273 100644
--- a/applications/admin/models/0.py
+++ b/applications/admin/models/0.py
@@ -47,3 +47,4 @@ if 'adminLanguage' in request.cookies and not (request.cookies['adminLanguage']
 #set static_version
 from gluon.settings import global_settings
 response.static_version = global_settings.web2py_version.split('-')[0]
+response.static_version_urls = True
diff --git a/applications/admin/views/default.mobile/edit.html b/applications/admin/views/default.mobile/edit.html
index 09e6c101..1acb4272 100644
--- a/applications/admin/views/default.mobile/edit.html
+++ b/applications/admin/views/default.mobile/edit.html
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ var current_editor = "{{=editor_settings['editor']}}";  //Default editor
 {{pass}}
 var current_font_incr = 0; // Default font-size, 0 means don't set
 </script>
-{{cm=URL('static%s' % (response.static_version and '/_' + response.static_version  or ''),'codemirror')}}
+{{cm=URL('static', 'codemirror')}}
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{=cm}}/lib/codemirror.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{='%s/theme/%s.css' % (cm, editor_settings['theme'])}}">
 <script src="{{=cm}}/lib/codemirror.js"></script>
diff --git a/applications/admin/views/default/edit.html b/applications/admin/views/default/edit.html
index d094b937..d879e157 100644
--- a/applications/admin/views/default/edit.html
+++ b/applications/admin/views/default/edit.html
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ def file_create_form(location, anchor=None, helptext=""):
       url = URL('edit', args=args, vars=vars)
       return A(file, _class='editor_filelink', _href=url, _style='word-wrap: nowrap;')
 }}
-{{cm=URL('static%s' % (response.static_version and '/_' + response.static_version  or ''),'codemirror')}}
-{{js_url=URL('static%s' % (response.static_version and '/_' + response.static_version  or ''),'js')}}
-{{css_url=URL('static%s' % (response.static_version and '/_' + response.static_version  or ''),'css')}}
+{{cm=URL('static', 'codemirror')}}
+{{js_url=URL('static', 'js')}}
+{{css_url=URL('static', 'css')}}
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{=cm}}/lib/codemirror.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{='%s/theme/%s.css' % (cm, editor_settings['theme'])}}">
 <script src="{{=cm}}/lib/codemirror.js"></script>
@@ -311,8 +311,8 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
 });
 </script>
 <!-- Typeahead scripts here so the page load faster -->
-<script src="{{=URL('static%s' % (response.static_version and '/_' + response.static_version  or ''), 'js/typeahead.min.js')}}"></script>
-<script src="{{=URL('static%s' % (response.static_version and '/_' + response.static_version  or ''), 'js/hogan-2.0.0.js')}}"></script>
+<script src="{{=URL('static', 'js/typeahead.min.js')}}"></script>
+<script src="{{=URL('static', 'js/hogan-2.0.0.js')}}"></script>
 <script>
     $('.typeahead-tw').typeahead({
         name: 'files',
diff --git a/gluon/globals.py b/gluon/globals.py
index dfc36846..8d95289e 100644
--- a/gluon/globals.py
+++ b/gluon/globals.py
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ from gluon import recfile
 import hashlib
 import portalocker
 try:
-   import cPickle as pickle
+    import cPickle as pickle
 except:
-   import pickle
+    import pickle
 from pickle import Pickler, MARK, DICT, EMPTY_DICT
 from types import DictionaryType
 import cStringIO
@@ -234,7 +234,8 @@ class Request(Storage):
             dpost = cgi.FieldStorage(fp=body, environ=env, keep_blank_values=1)
             try:
                 post_vars.update(dpost)
-            except: pass
+            except:
+                pass
             if query_string is not None:
                 env['QUERY_STRING'] = query_string
             # The same detection used by FieldStorage to detect multipart POSTs
@@ -332,8 +333,8 @@ class Request(Storage):
         and secures the session.
         """
         cmd_opts = global_settings.cmd_options
-        #checking if this is called within the scheduler or within the shell
-        #in addition to checking if it's not a cronjob
+        # checking if this is called within the scheduler or within the shell
+        # in addition to checking if it's not a cronjob
         if ((cmd_opts and (cmd_opts.shell or cmd_opts.scheduler))
                 or global_settings.cronjob or self.is_https):
             current.session.secure()
@@ -394,7 +395,7 @@ class Response(Storage):
         self._custom_commit = None
         self._custom_rollback = None
         self.generic_patterns = ['*']
-        self.delimiters = ('{{','}}')
+        self.delimiters = ('{{', '}}')
         self.formstyle = 'table3cols'
         self.form_label_separator = ': '
 
@@ -490,7 +491,11 @@ class Response(Storage):
         for item in files:
             if isinstance(item, str):
                 f = item.lower().split('?')[0]
-                if self.static_version:
+                #  if static_version we need also to check for
+                #  static_version_urls. In that case, the _.x.x.x
+                #  bit would have already been added by the URL()
+                #  function
+                if self.static_version and not self.static_version_urls:
                     item = item.replace(
                         '/static/', '/static/_%s/' % self.static_version, 1)
                 if f.endswith('.css'):
@@ -698,7 +703,7 @@ class Response(Storage):
             DIV(BEAUTIFY(current.response), backtotop,
                 _class="w2p-toolbar-hidden", _id="response-%s" % u),
             DIV(BEAUTIFY(dbtables), backtotop,
-                _class="w2p-toolbar-hidden",_id="db-tables-%s" % u),
+                _class="w2p-toolbar-hidden", _id="db-tables-%s" % u),
             DIV(BEAUTIFY(dbstats), backtotop,
                 _class="w2p-toolbar-hidden", _id="db-stats-%s" % u),
             SCRIPT("jQuery('.w2p-toolbar-hidden').hide()"),
@@ -1007,7 +1012,7 @@ class Session(Storage):
         elif self._secure and response.session_id_name in rcookies:
             rcookies[response.session_id_name]['secure'] = True
 
-    def clear_session_cookies(sefl):
+    def clear_session_cookies(self):
         request = current.request
         response = current.response
         session = response.session
@@ -1189,6 +1194,7 @@ class Session(Storage):
             except:
                 pass
 
+
 def pickle_session(s):
     return Session, (dict(s),)