Hi Brad, that fixed it - plus I now have a better understanding of how python works.
I'm beginning to understand what Jeff Knupp writes here: http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/12/11/learning-python-via-django-considered-harmful/ :-) Am Dienstag, 17. September 2013 17:58:42 UTC+2 schrieb Brad Pitcher: > > To make my code work, you could set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to > 'my_project.settings', and just put formdesigner.py directly under > my_project. > > If you wanted to keep formdesigner.py where it is, you would want to > change the sys.path.append line to this: > > sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), > '..')) > > > --------- > Brad Pitcher > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:25 AM, DJ-Tom <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm also not sure if the python file is at the correct location. >> >> This is how the directory structure looks: >> >> my_project >> \my_project\ >> settings.py >> \my_app\ # this is where my models are defined >> models.py >> formdesigner.py >> >> >> Where should my formdesigner.py be located? >> >> my_project ? >> my_project\my_project ? >> my_project\my_app ? >> >> What do I put into DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE? >> >> 'my_project.settings'? >> >> >> Am Montag, 16. September 2013 18:17:21 UTC+2 schrieb Brad Pitcher: >> >>> You need to do something like this before import django stuff: >>> >>> import os >>> import sys >>> >>> sys.path.append(os.path.**abspath(os.path.dirname(__**file__))) >>> os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_**MODULE'] = 'web.settings' >>> >>> >>> --------- >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
