Re: settings and constants on a reusable app

Support an additional variable MY_APP_USE_OTHER_CONSTANT (MY and
MY_APP, are, I hope, not the prefixes you are actually using), which
defaults to False and which the project settings file can override to
True.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Marc Aymerich <glicerinu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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