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Load Django modules from within a Salt module
"""
This allows you to import Django modules into a Salt module
"""
import logging
import sys
import os
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# point this at the virtualenv dir that your django deployment runs out of
# you are using virtualenv. right?
DJANGO_ENV = '/home/core/python-envs/production'
# where your code lives (ie where settings.py is)
DJANGO_DIR = '/home/core/code/production'
log.debug("Preparing Django modules...")
# add our site packages
import site
site_packages = os.path.join(DJANGO_ENV, 'lib', 'python%s' % sys.version[:3], 'site-packages')
site.addsitedir(site_packages)
# put the main Django directory on first
sys.path.insert(0, DJANGO_DIR)
# setup the Django environment pointing to our settings
import settings
import django.core.management
django.core.management.setup_environ(settings)
# finally, import our objects
from yourapp.models import YourModel
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fatbox commented Feb 27, 2012

Yeah, this could definitely use a refactor. Most of it was based on another snippet I found.

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fatbox commented Feb 27, 2012

Done. Thanks for the motivation :)

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SEJeff commented Feb 27, 2012

s/Preapring/Preparing/ :)

Now you see why Tom loves me. This is really cool stuff man! It would be fantastic if you could do a writeup about it all somewhere public and maybe post about it on the salt-users mailinglist.

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