Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of SplitSettings

Timestamp:

Jan 18, 2010, 9:08:35 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

Antti Kaihola

Comment:

added a solution for accessing and modifying existing settings

SplitSettings

@@ -301 +301 @@
 settings/*-local.conf
 }}}
+
+== Accessing and modifying existing settings ==
+
+I ([http://djangopeople.net/akaihola Antti Kaihola]) have used the following solution to modify settings which are tuples or lists. This is handy e.g. when separating app-specific settings to their own files.
+
+settings.py:
+{{{
+INSTALLED_APPS = ('whatever',)
+import more_settings
+more_settings.modify(globals())
+}}}
+
+more_settings.py:
+{{{
+def modify(settings):
+    settings['INSTALLED_APPS'] += ('another_app',)
+}}}
+
+alternate more_settings.py with more magic:
+{{{
+def config(INSTALLED_APPS=(), **other_settings):
+    INSTALLED_APPS += ('another_app',)
+    return locals()
+
+def modify(settings):
+    settings.update(config(**settings))
+}}}