All you need to do is start a application and if its not connected it will fail. Other way you can try is on shell try following – from django.db import connections from django.db.utils import OperationalError db_conn = connections[‘default’] try: c = db_conn.cursor() except OperationalError: connected = False else: connected = True
Although I wasn’t able to come across anything Python-specific on stackoverflow, I did find a website that was helpful, and thought I’d share the solution with the rest of the community. The solution: environment variables. Note: Although environment variables are similar in both Linux/Unix/OS X and in the Windows worlds, I haven’t tested this code … Read more
I have similar problem and solved it with this answer by adding localhost to the database HOST settings in settings.py, so your database settings should look like this: DATABASES = { ‘default’:{ ‘ENGINE’:’django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2′, # ‘.postgresql_psycopg2’, ‘.mysql’, or ‘.oracle’ ‘NAME’:’indivo’, # Required to be non-empty string ‘USER’:’indivo’, # Required to be non-empty string ‘PASSWORD’:’ritvik’, ‘HOST’:’localhost’, # … Read more
Python modules (including Django apps) have a __file__ attribute that tells you the location of their __init__.py file on the filesystem, so import appname pth = os.path.dirname(appname.__file__) should do what you want. In usual circumstances, os.path.absname(appname.__path__[0]), but it’s possible for apps to change that if they want to import files in a weird way. (I … Read more
In newer versions of Django it is possible just by specifying INTERNAL_IPS in settings. For example: INTERNAL_IPS = ( ‘127.0.0.1’, ‘192.168.1.23’, ) and then in template just: {% if debug %} because context processors responsible for that by default, and the answers from How to check the TEMPLATE_DEBUG flag in a django template? are bit … Read more
set DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = ‘My Domain <noreply@mydomain.com>’
Don’t run django-admin.py for anything other than the initial project creation. For everything after that, use manage.py, which takes care of the finding the settings.
No, this is not currently possible. According to the docs, the following syntax is supported: [‘www.example.com’] # Fully qualified domain [‘.example.com’] # Subdomain wildcard, matches example.com and www.example.com [‘*’] # Matches anything If you look at the implementation of the validate_host method, you can see that using ‘*’ by itself is allowed, but using * … Read more
It seemed you’ve made it the correct way: import setting object and check. And you can try to use: if hasattr(settings, ‘ANOTHER_VARIABLE’): instead of: if settings.is_defined(‘ANOTHER_VARIABLE’): I found the documentation, hope this might help.
The simplest solution is to use the getattr(settings, ‘MY_SETTING’, ‘my_default’) trick that you mention youself. It can become a bit tedious to have to do this in multiple places, though. Extra recommendation: use a per-app prefix like MYAPP_MY_SETTING. There is a django app, however, that gets rid of the getattr and that handles the prefix … Read more