Re: A Python Web Application Package and Format
Ian Bicking <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > I stumbled across https://apphosted.com as more web application package > and format 'prior art'. It appears to be an App Engine competitor. According > to their API documentation, their deployment format is an archive containing > a single directory with your WSGI program and a metro.config. They put the > database configuration in a settings.py written into the application's root > with defined DB_URI, etc. > There's something that bothers me about using settings.py, though I guess it's not that different from a YAML file or whatever, though with a cleverness danger. Conveniently you could do sys.modules['settings'] = new.module('settings') and avoid ever making a real file. Using the name "settings" *specifically* is likely to cause name clashes with existing Django applications. Ian _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list [email protected] Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/gcpw-web-sig%40m.gmane.org