Thanks, I did look at it, it was the import of the Manager for the other shortcuts that was causing the issue. I'll try and file a bug for this.
Paul On Apr 2, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Carl Meyer wrote: > On 04/02/2012 09:35 AM, Optimus Paul wrote: >> I've been running Django for quite a while without a "database", we >> use MongoDB, and it has worked well for us. We upgraded to 1.4 and >> found that suddenly a default database is required. Is there a reason >> for this? Or is this a bug? > > Preston has the right solution for this - delete your DATABASES setting > entirely. I think it would be best if an empty DATABASES setting had the > same effect, especially since that's how it was in 1.3 - if you'd be > willing to file a ticket for that, that'd be great. > >> We get the error when importing django.shortcuts.render_to_response, >> which doesn't seem like the kind of place a database connection would >> even be required. > > render_to_response doesn't require a database, but there are other > functions in django.shortcuts that do (e.g. get_object_or_404), and the > error is triggered on any import of django.db.* > > Carl > -- 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.