Django paths, developing in windows, deploying on linux

Question

I\'m developing Django apps on my local windows machine then deploying to a hosted linux server. The format for paths is different between the two and manually replacing before

Answer 1

We have a situation very similar to yours, and we've been using different paths in settings, basing on sys.platform. Something like this:

import os, sys
DEVELOPMENT_MODE = sys.platform == 'win32'
if DEVELOPMENT_MODE:
    HOME_DIR = 'c:\\django-root\\'
else:
    HOME_DIR = '/home/django-root/'

It works quite OK - assumed all development is being done on Windows.