Hi, ---
Preliminary Note: For nicer formatting of the code snippets in this email, you can check out the stack overflow post I made asking this question, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10881249/django-database-improperly-configured-when-function-called-outside-of-django --- I'm trying to call a python function that makes some queries into my django database from GNU mailman. When mailman tries to deliver a message, it imports my python script. It later calls a function in my script to modify the message object. The error I'm getting is: ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. Please supply the ENGINE value. Check settings documentation \ for more details. Here's how I'm configuring the settings, at the very top of my file: from django.core.management import setup_environ from mysite import settings setup_environ(settings) When I run python manage.py syncdb, it seems to create the database fine. Here's my database configuration: DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'. 'NAME': 'django_db', # Or path to database file if using sqlite3. 'USER': 'root', # Not used with sqlite3. 'PASSWORD': 'root', # Not used with sqlite3. 'HOST': '', # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3. 'PORT': '', # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3. } } Further, I've commented out the entirety of my function such that it now looks like: def f(): return So I don't think this has to do with the function call. Further, I've tested the setup_environ lines in the python console and everything works as expected. Further, when I restart GNU mailman, I believe it has to load all its scripts, which means it necessarily has to import my file. This means that these "setup_environ" lines run when I restart mailman. And it's fine -- I get no errors. It's only when GNU mailman tries to deliver a message that I have problems. So I'm pretty stumped. I do run the mailman restart command as sudo with additional PYTHONPATH and DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environmental variables, but I've manually added to the relevant parts to my sys.path and os.environ dict, which doesn't fix the problem either. Besides, the error doesn't suggest it's a problem with the path or being unable to find the settings module. Thanks! -- 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.
