Django snippets: 3rd Party App Directories

APP_DIRS = (
    # Put strings here like '/home/html/project/apps'
    # Pretty much just like TEMPLATE_DIRS.
)

import sys

for app_dir in APP_DIRS:
    sys.path.insert(0, app_dir)

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How to make this work:

Put the code into your settings.py (or even better, local_settings.py if you have one)
Put 3rd party apps you'd like to use into the directories specified in APP_DIRS.
Place 'appname', into INSTALLED_APPS.

Just a little trick I use to keep from having to install apps via setup.py; I can just stick apps into arbitrary locations and use them. I also do this to keep single copies of 3rd party apps I use in multiple projects (but again without installing to the global python path). No idea if this is bad practice or anything, but I find it useful.

Author:: thalin
Posted:: June 30, 2008
Language:: Python
Django Version:: .96
Tags:: settings apps applications
Score:: -2 (after 6 ratings)

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