I’ve always been bothered by the same problem of different environments on production and development servers, but took a different approach. For my Django projects, I place the following into my settings.py file. It uses python os’s module uname which returns the name of the machine.

import os
LOCAL_DEVELOPMENT = False if ‘production_machine’ in os.uname()[1] else True
if LOCAL_DEVELOPMENT:
CACHE_BACKEND = ‘dummy:///’
DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True
else:
CACHE_BACKEND= ‘memcache://127.0.0.1:12711/’
DEBUG = False
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = False

Thanks for the explanation on m4 and Make though. I’ll definitely use that next time.

I’ve always been bothered by the same problem of different environments on production and development servers, but took a different approach. For my Django projects, I place the following into my settings.py file. It uses python os’s module uname which returns the name of the machine.

import os
LOCAL_DEVELOPMENT = False if ‘production_machine’ in os.uname()[1] else True
if LOCAL_DEVELOPMENT:
CACHE_BACKEND = ‘dummy:///’
DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True
else:
CACHE_BACKEND= ‘memcache://127.0.0.1:12711/’
DEBUG = False
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = False

Thanks for the explanation on m4 and Make though. I’ll definitely use that next time.