Hey guys!
So I've just written a blog post about getting started with Django,
http://gun.io/blog/python-for-the-web/, and many of the things here
just make me think, 'why doesn't it just do that by default?'
Here's some of what I propose. I'm not suggesting this be a canonical
list of features by any means, I'm just suggesting that django have
more convenient default settings. We should look at the most common
conventions and best practices and shape the defaults towards them.
Anyway, I propose that:
django-admin.py startproject newproj
should create ./static, ./uploads and ./newproj and ./newproj/
templates
in ./newproj/settings.py..
import os
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates'),
)
and at the end, the commonly used from local settings import * block.
I'd also suggest that django-admin.py startproject newapp, if
possible, add the new application to the settings.py file if it can be
done so safely.
I would also suggest that when making a new application, the most
commonly used imports are already there in the py files
(render_to_response, HttpResonse, get_object_or_404, etc).
Who's with me? :)
R
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