Settings in Pythoncode

[Stefano Probst]

Hi!

I want to access variables in my code like in the docs. I have a code like the following in settings.py:

codec_baseString = "...XYZ:::"

In a other file (common.py):

from django.conf import settings
def num2short(num, baseString = settings.codec_baseString):
    ....
    ....

I get the error "'Settings' object has no attribute 'codec_baseString' ". In the docs stand:

Note that django.conf.settings isn't a module -- it's an object. So importing individual settings is not possible:

Refer this sentence to the example after the sentence or to my plan with my own variable?

Thanks.

[Daniel Roseman]

Your error is probably because the definition is evaluated at import time, when the values from settings.py have not yet been added to the django.conf.settings object. This would work better:

    def num2short(num, base_string=None):

        if base_string is None:

            base_string = settings.codec_base_string

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DR.

[Stefano Probst]

The answer:

I compare my variable with the other setting-variables. All other variables are uppercases (-> constant). When I write my variable big, it works.