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Brainfuck Python Interpreter « Abd Allah Diab's Blog — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:26:58 +0000

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By: Spaizkadett

Spaizkadett — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:50:14 +0000

To get it to work on a windows box add:

.replace(‘\\’,'/’)

to all the settings that has anything with a path in it

By: Sumit Chachra

Sumit Chachra — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:27:42 +0000

No… nothing to give runserver. Use os.environ to get the values and then some if/else blocks works just fine:

ENV = os.environ['ENV']

if ENV == ‘dev’:
IS_DEV = True
DEBUG = True
LOG_LEVEL = logging.DEBUG
.
.
.
.

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:01:53 +0000

There are some good tips here, but I noticed your links to Google Code are all messed up. I’m not quite sure how, but it looks like WordPress switched code.google.com to be pre.google.com (I’m guessing something with the code and pre HTML tags).

Also, for template directories you don’t need to specify these out if you name them like you do. Django automatically looks for a directory called templates in all installed apps. Check out django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source in the docs http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#loader-types

By: How to serve media with Django’s runserver and only with runserver « DAMON BLOGONS

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:35:14 +0000

[...] But I’m the type of guy who has forgotten to change DEBUG to false on the production server (I know I know!! This is the reason I do this). [...]

By: Damon Jablons

Damon Jablons — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:02:35 +0000

Hey David,

I’m interested in why you suggest that. All that my local_settings.py file has is some DB settings. It doesn’t need to be version controlled. It only consists of four lines.

By: Damon Jablons

Damon Jablons — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:19:59 +0000

That sounds like a good idea, do you have an example of how it’d look? I’m assuming you’d have to input your variables with the runserver command.

By: David

David — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:00:58 +0000

Hi,
I have a few suggestions, but first of all I want to say that I like your approach, it’s much better than many others I’ve seen on the past.

1. I’m pretty sure django does the same as your “Template Directories” trick on the fly for you already.

2. I don’t think it’s a good idea make your repository ignore local_settings.py, I’d rather put it on the Python path somewhere else.

That’s all