On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Serdar T. <zstumgo...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> So I'm continuing to look for the source of bugs on this front, and
> wanted to add a note on a strange PYTHONPATH issue that I've
> encountered.
>
> When I fire up ipython from my project directory (using ./manage.py
> shell) , the PYTHONPATH includes the following paths for my project:
>
>  '/home/user/web/project/',
>  '/home/user/web/project/..',
>  '/home/user/web/project/../project',
>
> That seems very strange to me, since I only intended to add the base
> project directory to the list of PYTHONPATHS. To do so, I added the
> following to my project directory's __init__.py :
>
>    from os.path import dirname
>    from sys import path
>
>    path.append(dirname(__file__))
>
> Even more strange, when I comment out that code, the pythonpath now
> includes just the root project directory:
>  '/home/user/web/project/',
>
> However, when I fire up the normal python interpreter, the project is
> not included on the pythonpath.
>
> All of this, of course, has not resolved the issue, but leads me to
> wonder if Django is:
> a) automagically appending my project directory to the pythonpath when
> I run the ./manage.py shell
> b) somehow stomping on my pythonpath configurations when I run the
> devserver
>
> Anyone have any advice?
> >
>

Yes, manage.py does append your project directory to the PythonPath:

http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/core/management/__init__.py#L328

Alex
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