possible side effect: I wrote some class that runs during settings.py and customizes settings (dev/live/beta)
it logs when doing that, and so I've noticed that settings gets parsed 4 times ! loading ENVIRONMENT: local_settings.py SITE_URL is: http://127.0.0.1:8000 loading ENVIRONMENT: local_settings.py SITE_URL is: http://127.0.0.1:8000 loading ENVIRONMENT: local_settings.py SITE_URL is: http://127.0.0.1:8000 loading ENVIRONMENT: local_settings.py SITE_URL is: http://127.0.0.1:8000 Validating models... 0 errors found Django version 1.0-final-SVN-9014, using settings 'sustain.settings' Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C. so you might just have appended 4 times. worth investigating. check the path before appending. anyway, I would do it in the .wsgi On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:10 AM, David Zhou <da...@nodnod.net> wrote: > > I've been doing the following for a while, but I'm not sure if it has > unintended side effects: > > #settings.py > import os, sys > sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), > 'apps')) > > I keep pluggable apps in an svn repo, and do checkouts of the ones I > need in the apps folder that's specific to whatever site I'm working > on. And since I do this for most of my projects, I figured it'd be > easier to make sure it was in the pythonpath rather than relying on > the environment to properly define pythonpath. > > Is it considered bad practice to dynamically modify the pythonpath in > something like settings.py? > > -- dz > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
