On 12 juin 2011, at 22:35, Aymeric Augustin wrote: > 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]
Argh! I wanted to write: "which was rejected in Python for a good reason" > 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? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
