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Rails-like environments using Django

Author:
ElfSternberg
Posted:
October 14, 2009
Language:
Python
Version:
1.1
Score:
0 (after 2 ratings)

This is a replacement for settings.py, which moves the actual settings files into a directory called "env" and establishes different versions for different settings of the environment variable DJANGO_ENV. At runtime, the specified development environment can be found and loaded into the local context of settings.py, which is then picked up by whatever routine manage.py is kicking off. 

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import os
import os.path

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.normpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

local_import = "env/development.py"
if os.getenv("DJANGO_ENV") == 'TEST':
    local_import = "env/test.py"
elif os.getenv("DJANGO_ENV") == 'PRODUCTION':
    local_import = "env/production.py"

import_file = open(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, local_import))
exec(import_file)

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Comments

insha (on October 14, 2009):

That's cool and see why someone might want to do this; but I find it simpler to duplicate my settings.py file rename it to local_settings.py (or whatever you like) and add the following to the end of the original settings.py:

try: 
    from local_settings import * 
except ImportError: 
    pass

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