Django - How to deal with the paths in settings.py on collaborative projects

Question

I have just started a feasibility study on Django for my company and I have noticed the need for absolute paths on settings.py:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
   # Put string         


        

Answer 1

Besides using os.path you could add

try:
    import * from settings_local
except:
    pass

at the end of you settings.py. Every developer can then create his own settings_local.py file which is not checked in into the VCS!