I wouldn't say it's frowned upon, per se, but you're making things hard for yourself. Why not add Django to your Python path?
There are other ways to go, too... In the shell you're working in: $ export PYTHONPATH=~/pkg/django-trunk Then ./manage.py will find it without editing the file. For myself, I have multiple versions of Django in a folder in my home directory and manage which one is used via a .pth file in my Python path. See this snippet: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/641/ -Rob On Jan 4, 1:56 am, George Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I keep my django-trunk installation (and other things like > django_evolution) in my home directory, outside the system-wide > installation To avoid having to set PYTHONPATH in the environment, I > set do this in my project settings.py file: > > # ---- sys.path trickery > ----------------------------------------------- > import os, os.path, sys > root = os.path.abspath( os.path.dirname( __file__ ) or os.curdir ) > sys.path.insert( 0, os.path.normpath( os.path.join( root, '..', '..', > 'pkg', 'django-trunk' ) ) ) > sys.path.insert( 0, os.path.normpath( os.path.join( root, '..', '..', > 'lib' ) ) ) > > as such, it's necessary to edit manage.py to move the "from > django.core.management import execute_manager" below the "try / import > settings / except" block. > > Is this frowned upon? If not, hope this helps someone. :-) > > gjvc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
