I'd recommend caching the data using Django's caching framework and either the local memory or memcached backend. To update the cache, write a management command that runs periodically as a cron job. (If you find yourself needing more sophisticated background task management, check out Celery.)
Brett On 2/8/12 4:14 PM, "bfrederi" <brfrederi...@gmail.com> wrote: >I have some data that I retrieve using urllib and then cache on a >different server that I frequently use through my site. Since it gets >used so frequently, I was wondering why it might be a good/bad idea to >make the urllib request in the settings.py. It's data that gets >changed infrequently, but should update every once in a while, but I'd >prefer that it stayed in local memory as much as possible, since it >gets used so much. Any advice on how to make a dynamic global variable >like that is much appreciated. > >Thanks, >Brandon > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Django users" group. >To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
