Possible problem with setting import in django/http/__init__.py

[Miloslav Pojman]

Comments in QueryDict _get_encoding and __init__ methods say:

*Important*: do not import settings at the module level because of the note in core.handlers.modpython.

and settings are imported inside these methods:
​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/http/__init__.py#L327 and
​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/http/__init__.py#L339

But settings ARE imported at the module level too:
​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/http/__init__.py#L124

[Russell Keith-Magee]

I'm going to mark this wontfix, but only because it's a *possible* problem that hasn't manifested itself in an obvious way in the three years since the import in question was introduced.

If anyone can demonstrate that this is a real problem, feel free to reopen.