settings no longer availiable in urls.py

[mackenzie@…]

the edit of /django/core/management/init.py in [8282]
has made it so that settings are no longer available in a urls.py

settings.py

MEDIA_ROOT = '/media/'

urls.py

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.conf import settings

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
)

this setup will always give a 404 when you try to view the static media. It is not the view but settings.MEDIA_ROOT is not accessible. any of the settings can not be accessed.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

As noted on the mailing list, Karen Tracey has tried this exact example and it works. I just tried a completely unrelated project, imported settings into my url config and printed out settings.MEDIA_ROOT and it worked (using [8309]). So this doesn't seem to be a problem. I think there's something else going on at your end here.