Drew Raines wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> But I have lots of "data" files that live in and around my Django
>> code and I have to access with them with stuff like:
>>
>> f = open("somedir/myfile.dat", 'r')
>>
>> So how do I make those lines look like that instead of having a bunch of
>> absolute paths stuck in there or lots of messy stuff with
>> os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__)...) in it?
>
> Don't use specific paths throughout your code. Set variables in
> settings.py and scatter those around.
>
> To avoid the proliferation of os.path.* everywhere, I use something
> like this in my settings files:
>
> import os
> HOME = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
>
> TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
> HOME + "/templates",
> )
>
> UPLOADS = HOME + "/files"
>
> and so on.
Me like. Thanks.
Michael
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