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20717	Generic autodiscover() mechanism	Nicolas Noé	nobody	"Hi,

For an app I'm currently working on, I was looking to implement some configuration mechanism to load and execute my_app_config.py files in other installed apps directories, similar to how we configure the admin site through multiple admin.py files and by calling the admin.autodiscover() function.

It seems a quite common pattern found in many other apps (Django CMS, django-admin2, ..), but I was quite surprised to see that everyone seems to reinvent the wheel in this aspect. Shouldn't we provide a clean public-facing function (in django.utils) to do exactly this ?

If it appears that the use-cases are too different to be code-factorized, maybe we should instead improve documentation in this aspect, providing some best practices on this subject ?

Should I start working on one of these two approaches ?

Thanks,

Nicolas"	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Packaging	1.5	Normal	duplicate		nicolas@…	Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0