Re: settings and constants on a reusable app

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Thomas Rega <tr@pyt3ch.com> wrote:
> Am 28.06.12 17:30, schrieb Marc Aymerich:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm developing a reusable application and I'm having troubles with
>> constant values on settings.
>>
>> Imagine that the reusable application comes with the following settings.py
>>
>> # MY_APP/settings.py
>> from django.conf import settings
>> MY_CONSTANT = 'C1'
>> MY_OTHER_CONSTANT =  'C2'
>> MY_SETTING = getattr(settings, 'MY_SETTING', CONSTANT)
>>
>>
>> But for your project you want to override the default value of
>> MY_SETTING by MY_OTHER_CONSTANT. So you edit your project settings.py
>> and adds these two lines:
>>
>> # Project settings.py
>> ....
>> from MY_APP.settings import settings as my_app_settings
>> MY_SETTING = my_app_settings.MY_OTHER_SETTING
>>
>>
>> But this is going to fail because of the import order.
>>
>> Is there any consistent way to handle this situation?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Hi,
>
> what about the idea to overwrite these values via a 'local_settings.py'
> file?
>
> An example can be found here:
> https://bitbucket.org/chris1610/satchmo/src/1255b19295c7/satchmo/projects/skeleton/settings.py

Hi thomas, thanks :)

Yeah, actually I'm using a local_settings.py file, but at the end it
will be the same as using settings.py since local_settings.py is
imported by settings.py. :(


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Marc

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