Execute code when Django starts ONCE only?

Question

I\'m writing a Django Middleware class that I want to execute only once at startup, to initialise some other arbritary code. I\'ve followed the very nice solution posted by

Answer 1

Update from Pykler's answer below: Django 1.7 now has a hook for this

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Don't do it this way.

You don't want "middleware" for a one-time startup thing.

You want to execute code in the top-level urls.py. That module is imported and executed once.

urls.py

from django.confs.urls.defaults import *
from my_app import one_time_startup

urlpatterns = ...

one_time_startup()