Hi Malcolm,
On Mar 8, 4:57 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 21:29 -0800, MattDoranwrote:
>
> A "project" is a convenient wrapper particularly for those starting out.
>
> Ultimately, what you need to run a site are a settings file, a root URL
> Conf file and a bunch of applications that are available to be imported
> and thus sit somewhere on the Python path, as viewed by whatever is
> "running" Django -- meaning the webserver, usually. The applications
> don't have to reside anywhere near the settings file -- they just have
> to be importable.
>
In experimenting with a structure that feels more natural to me (i.e.
to forgo the concept of the project, and treat it as an application
with a settings.py and urls.py to configure the site). I've
structured my app as follows:
/
/docs/
/scripts/
/etcetcetc/
/site/
settings.py
urls.py
app/
In doing this I noticed that the default "project" is created as a
python module (i.e. it has a __init__.py). Why is this so? If the
settings and urls are basically standalone entities, why make this a
module? (fyi, I'm pretty new to python so don't understand the
intricacies of modules, and when they are required).
It seems that by making into a package, it make the django novice feel
like there is more importance to the "project" than there really
is.... and that some black magic is at play. My initial reaction is
to not touch things, because I don't understand them. If I delete the
"__init__.py" file then the local "manage.py" file fails to run.
Do you think there would be any benefit of changing this so it's not a
"module", which will make it more obvious to newbies about how django
works.
PS: Do you know of any medium/large-ish django sites which are open-
source which I could use as a guide for how to structure things...
that include unittests, etc. i.e. a django poster-child I can learn
from :)
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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