setup_environ(company.django.settings) won't work

[trebor74hr@…]

Hi,

I had problem with using django.core.management.setup_environ() function in this env:

• c:\python - pythonpath
• C:\python\company\django - django project root
• C:\python\company\django\reports - is django application
• -> company.django.reports is python package

in C:\python\company\django\reports\tests\test_views.py i have:

    from django.core.management import setup_environ
    import company.django.settings as settings
    setup_environ(settings)

>   from django.test.client import Client

but it reports error (django 0.96):

    django\conf\__init__.py:57
    try:
        mod = __import__(self.SETTINGS_MODULE, {}, {}, [''])
    except ImportError, e:
>       EnvironmentError: Could not import settings 'django.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named settings

After some investigation I found out that from module name company.django.settings first part (company) was dropped out in:

in django\core\management\__init__.py->setup_environ function:
    # Set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE appropriately.
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = '%s.%s' % (project_name, settings_name)

I made a patch to this (sorry for not sending you in .patch/.diff format):

    # Set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE appropriately.
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = '%s' % (settings_mod.__name__)

After this there is no problem. Hope it'll help (someone).

Btw. I prefer py.test (​http://codespeak.net/py/dist/test.html) testing framework, so in this way I have setup py.test to be used for django app testing. I like py.test --pdb post-mortem feature.

[Chris Beaven]

This has most likely been fixed. setup_environ adds the parent directory to the class (and [5696] made that a bit more solid).