Hello,
I checked the SVN history. This "feature" was never documented, even before the
reorganization at r8506. It appears in django/conf/__init__.py when
magic-removal is merged (r2809).
We just discussed it on IRC, and the consensus is that it dates back to before
Django was open-sourced. It was probably only used at World Online.
In my opinion, it's an anti-feature:
1 - It's un-pythonic: in essence, it's equivalent to an
filesystem-based implementation of "from <package> import *", which was not
rejected in Python for a good reason [1]
2 - like "from <module> import *", it's not explicit,
3 - you don't add apps to your settings file every day, so there's
little to gain.
I think it should be deprecated; since it was never documented, we could even
remove it outright.
Best regards,
--
Aymeric Augustin.
[1] http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html - section "Importing * From
a Package"
On 12 juin 2011, at 19:38, Francesco Mari wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've read source code for django.conf package and as of Django 1.3
> INSTALLED_APPS can accept wildcards for application names (e.g.
> django.contrib.*). It seems that the official documentation doesn't
> mention it in the Available Settings section.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
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