[TIP] Testing programs that are intended to be distributed in public repos but which need non-public information in order to work

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Sat Aug 27 05:20:45 PDT 2011


In a message of Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:50:24 EDT, Tom Davis writes:

>Maybe I'm missing something obvious that makes this a non-starter, but the 
>standard convention in Django is to have settings.py and local_settings.py,
>where the former imports everything from the latter in a try/except at the
>bottom of the module. 

Ah, no, I am the person who started writing her first Django app about
3 days ago, and seem to have missed that bit in the docs.  Thank you 
very, very much.

Laura



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