Whenever I start a new Django project, there are several common steps that I to help standardize my setups. In settings.py ... I define a PROJECT_ROOT variable which contains the path to the project directory. This is useful for various settings in the setup.py: import sys, os PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__) I set my MEDIA_ROOT to be a path relative to the PROJECT_ROOT. Of course, I will need to create this directory on the filesystem. MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, '..','htdocs','media').replace('\\','/') + '/' And I set a relative TEMPLATE_DIRS path. I will need to make this directory as well. TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates').replace('\\','/'), ) Sometimes I add extra directories to the path so I can store specific packages within the project directory. (I might use this if I want to keep all related modules together). sys.path...
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