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

in your settings.py add the following lines

import os.path

SETTINGS_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))  
head, tail = os.path.split(SETTINGS_PATH)

#add some directories to the path
import sys
sys.path.append(os.path.join(head, "apps"))
#do what you want with SETTINGS_PATH