I'm playing around with 1.7b4 and I was trying to track down why my app was not auto-reloading when files were changed using the dev server.
Turns out, it was an improperly configured LOCALE_PATHS setting. My LOCALE_PATHS was configured like this: LOCALE_PATHS = ( '/path/to/locale' ) At first glance, it looks okay. But it's actually a string and not a tuple since it does not have a comma. This causes a problem in the autoloader, here: https://github.com/django/django/blob/608e6eb2959c6e56e5c702ca0d15fa0e6c2eef16/django/utils/autoreload.py#L98 This would be fine, but since LOCALE_PATHS is a string, calling basedirs.extend(LOCALE_PATHS) actually causes every character in the string to get appended to basedirs. Then it walks through the tree and tries to find .mo files. And since there are 3 slashes in the string, the autoloader attempts to search the root drive 3 times. Bottom line is that having LOCALE_PATHS set to a string with slashes causes autoreloading to essentially take *forever*. Maybe adding a warning/validation to ensure LOCALE_PATHS is a list/tuple would be a good idea? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/c6c18d71-5da5-4aaf-83e9-db3b2d86e430%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.