Optional Django Apps
标签：python, django, hacksA project of mine contains a number of third-party apps that are development
related and potentially not available on every machine the project will run
on. My general approach to dealing with these was to try and import the app in
my settings module and if successful, add it to the INSTALLED_APPS
setting. However as the number of these apps grew it became a wart within the
settings module so I put together this snippet for managing them.
We first create a sequence of dictionaries, each containing information about
an installed app such as the module to try and import, an extra potential
condition for checking and then the sequences of names to add to
INSTALLED_APPS, MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES and TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.
Let’s start with the settings for optionally including the apps django-
command-extensions,
django-debug-toolbar and
south.
# Define any settings specific to each of the optional apps.
import sys
USE_SOUTH = not (len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == "test")
DEBUG_TOOLBAR_CONFIG = {"INTERCEPT_REDIRECTS": False}
# Sequence for each optional app as a dict containing info about the app.
OPTIONAL_APPS = (
{"import": "django_extensions", "apps": ("django_extensions",)},
{"import": "debug_toolbar", "apps": ("debug_toolbar",),
"middleware": ("debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware",)},
{"import": "south", "apps": ("south",), "condition": USE_SOUTH},
)Next we simply iterate through the sequence of optional apps and set them up.
# Set up each optional app if available.
for app in OPTIONAL_APPS:
if app.get("condition", True):
try:
__import__(app["import"])
except ImportError:
pass
else:
INSTALLED_APPS += app.get("apps", ())
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += app.get("middleware", ())