Problem running the command line examples in Tut 1 when using --settings option

[sdelatorre@…]

In tutorial 1, under "Playing with the API", none of the examples will work if you've been using the --settings option with django-admin.py (the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE env variable was never set). To work, you have to do the following before importing the project objects:

>>> import os
>>> os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE']='myproject.settings.main'
>>> from django.models.polls import polls, choices

Is there a more user friendly way to do this? Maybe add a global variable to django.conf that is used to do the import?

>>> django.conf.DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='myproject.settings.main'

or possibly

>>> django.settings_module='myproject.settings.main'

[Adrian Holovaty]

(In [328]) Fixed #143 -- Clarified the need for an environment variable in tutorial 1. Thanks, sdelatorre@…