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Alvaro
Alvaro

Reputation: 12037

Django default settings 1.6 BASE_DIR acting up

In the new template for settings django 1.6 generates the following code:

import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))

However this has never worked for me and I keep changing it to

import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

Is their code wrong or am I missing something? The idea of this BASE_DIR is to avoid hardcoding dir names.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1130

Answers (1)

sergiogarciadev
sergiogarciadev

Reputation: 2202

The idea behind os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)) is to get two directories above your settings directory.

Your code os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)) is the same as os.path.dirname(__file__).

You probably changed where your settings.py resides and for that you must change its path.

Upvotes: 1

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