dj-settings-helpers 1.0.0

Usage

Inside your settings.py file, do the following:

from dj_settings_helpers import create_project_dir, get_env
project_dir = create_project_dir(__file__)

Now, you can use project_dir to generate paths relative to your settings.py file and get_env to load environment variables.

For example, you can use it to add your project_root/templates directory to your TEMPLATES_DIRS setting like this:

TEMPLATES_DIRS = (
    project_dir('templates'),
)

You can use the get_env variable to pull in environment variables with defaults that depend on the ENVIRONMENT variable. For example, you can set multiple default BROKER_HOST variables for Celery like this:

BROKER_HOST = get_env('BROKER_HOST', 'default.rabbitmq.example.com',
        dev='localhost', staging='staging.rabbitmq.example.com')

If your ENVIRONMENT variable is equal to dev, the localhost string is used; if set to staging, it is staging.rabbitmq.example.com, and all other environments use default.rabbitmq.example.com. All of these are overridden by the presence of an environment variable named BROKER_HOST.

Please see the inline documentation in dj_settings_helpers.py for full examples and usage.

Installation

pip install dj-settings-helpers

License

Copyright 2012 Travis Swicegood

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.