I handle local settings and production settings in the same
settings.py file:
I group the settings that differ under
if os.environ['SERVER_SOFTWARE'].startswith('Dev'):
[development specific settings]
else:
[server specific settings]
that way you don't have to worry about two files
-John
On Dec 10, 5:20 am, Alex Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailingl...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Dec 9, 1:58 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Alex,
>
> > The standard way to determine if you are running on the development server
> > is this:
> > DEBUG = os.environ['SERVER_SOFTWARE'].startswith('Dev')
>
> Awesome! That's exactly what I was looking for.
>
> > Are you sure there has been a change in behaviour with regards to ignored
> > files? Are you able to provide a test case for this?
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a test case. But here is what I had working
> for a long time:
>
> - settings.py (constants, URI mappings, etc. for production)
>
> - _localsettings.py (overridding constants, etc. for local
> dev_appserver)
>
> - in settings.py
>
> try:
> from _localsettings import *
> logging.info('running with localsettings')
> except ImportError:
> pass
>
> Then there is the following log line:
>
> WARNING 2009-12-10 02:10:19,624 dev_appserver.py:1083] Blocking
> access to skipped file "/Users/alex/workspace/python/twimblr/
> _localsettings.py"
>
> and my overridden local constants not taking effect.
>
> I must confess that I don't know how recent is this change as there
> have been a gap for me in using the SDK. But I'm pretty sure that
> around version 1.1.9 this wasn't happening.
>
> Now, considering the above solution the fact that this behavior
> changed is no big deal. And I do understand the reasons for
> introducing this behavior (avoiding people surprise that something is
> working with the SDK but not in production).
>
> ./. alex
>
>
>
> > -Nick Johnson
>
> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Alex Popescu <
>
> > the.mindstorm.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
>
> > > I am wondering if there is a 'recommended' solution for enabling a set
> > > of URIs when the app is running locally for testing purposes.
>
> > > Until recently I had a setup which was defining additional URI
> > > mappings in a _localsettings.py module and this was set for exclusion
> > > in app.yaml.
> > > But it looks like a change in the SDK is now ignoring all modules
> > > excluded in app.yaml so I lost this feature.
>
> > > Any ideas?
>
> > > tia,
>
> > > ./alex
>
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