Hi all,
I'd like to inquire about the design decision to recommend users to
include the project name in DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE and ROOT_URLCONF, for
example:
When using django-admin.py, you can either set the environment variable
once, or explicitly pass in the settings module each time you run the
utility...
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mysite.settings
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/settings/>
A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf.
For example: "mydjangoapps.urls"
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#root-urlconf>
But "mysite" is a package, and Django wants us to be able to import
"mysite.settings" and "mysite.urls" (in fact, the latter is the default
ROOT_URLCONF setting). In order to make that possible, setup_environ
does some magic... This bit of clever causes a boat-load of problems...
<http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_frm/thread/44b70a37ff73298b>
My question is, why exactly Django wants us to be able to import
"mysite.settings" and "mysite.urls"? Wouldn't it be much simpler and
better if we could just import settings and urls?
As an experiment, I've removed the "setup_environ(settings_mod)" from my
manage.py, which adds the project's parent directory to the PYTHONPATH,
and it seems to work so far. I think that mod_wsgi uses an environment
without this addition as well, leading to tickets like this:
<https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15058>
<https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16673>
Is there any reason not to drop the project name part of
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE and ROOT_URLCONF, to reduce the risk of confusion,
pollution, double imports and bad practice app coding in Django?
Cheers, Chris.
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