Need change the Environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE check

[limodou@…]

If I want to import some django module in IDLE to do some testing work, but I may get follows execption:

import django.core.formfields

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in -toplevel-

import django.core.formfields

File "c:\python24\lib\site-packages\django-0.90-py2.4.egg\django\core\formfields.py", line 1, in -toplevel-

from django.core import validators

File "c:\python24\lib\site-packages\django-0.90-py2.4.egg\django\core\validators.py", line 28, in -toplevel-

from django.conf.settings import JING_PATH

File "c:\python24\lib\site-packages\django-0.90-py2.4.egg\django\conf\settings.py", line 29, in -toplevel-

raise EnvironmentError, "Environment variable %s is undefined." % ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE

EnvironmentError: Environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.

Can you change the checking to DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE? I think if there is no DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE Environment variable or command line argument, the django should use current path as the value of DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or omit it at all. That should be better. And I also can import some django module in IDLE without exception.

[Adrian Holovaty]

If you set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE before you run IDLE, I believe this will solve your problem.