Standalone Scripts Docs

[jhrr]

So, this part of the docs is somewhat terse and obscure:

https://django-configurations.readthedocs.org/en/latest/patterns/#standalone-scripts

I'm not sure what it means or why I would want it. Could anyone clarify it for me? I'd be more than happy to update the docs with extra detail once I've understood...

[a7p]

before being able to use Django in a Script (which is not a managment-script) some initialization has to be done in a certain order, so you can use models etc.

Since the setup-format with django-comments is different a modified method has to be used for initializing django - without django-configurations you'd use this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/applications/#django.setup

The documentation could be improved by adding a link do the documentation of django.setup().

[MechanisM]

I have tasks.py for uwsgi spooler, which is handled by uwsgi. When I setup it as:

import configurations
configurations.setup()

It works fine, but what if I'm developing reusable application? This app can be used with or without django-configurations, but I can't use:

from django.apps import apps

if apps.is_installed('configurations'):
    import configurations
    configurations.setup()

because django-configurations doesn't need to be listed in INSTALLED_APPS.. And I can't just check if environment variable for django-configurations exists, coz it can be just defined, but it doesn't means that project runs via django-configurations.. I can't try to import too, coz it can be installed, but not used. How to correctly detect if project runs via django-configurations or not?