Re: settings and constants on a reusable app

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

Good luck,
TR



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