Thanks for the quick reply. I discovered exactly what you said about 2
seconds after pressing the submit on my query.

On Oct 29, 4:50 pm, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Johan <djjord...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi. In django\template\__init__.py on line 54 there is a line of
> > code : from django.conf import settings. Firstly there is no
> > settings.py file in django\conf, ther is however a file called
> > global_settings.py. In my context the is issue is fxed by changing the
> > line to from django.conf import global_settings as settings. I am
> > wanting to use the template engine outside the context of a django
> > project so I would not have a settings file anywhere on my path. I am
> > assuming that the code works in a project context since the project
> > would import settings and this 'broken' import would just fail
> > silently ?? Is this a bug? Is my fix going to break anything else?
>
> What you are reporting is not a bug. You need to look closer at what
> is happening with django.conf. django/conf/__init__.py contains a
> variable named settings that is the lazy evaluator of the setting
> file. THis is the object that is obtained when you call 'from
> django.conf import settings"
>
> Your "fix" will break quite a bit of code - including, potentially,
> your own. It would results in the template system only ever using the
> global defaults. This wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that
> there are a couple of settings that affect the way that templates are
> rendered.
>
> Django's dependence on DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is an oft-lamented
> problem. Suggestions on how to address this constraint are most
> welcome. However, it isn't a simple problem to fix.
>
> Yours,
> Russ Magee %-)
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