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12th May 2009 - Link Blog

Contextual (via) I’ve been trying to figure out a sane way to replace Django’s settings.py global module with something that’s designed to be reconfigured at run-time. Contextual appears to be trying to solve exactly that problem.

Posted 12th May 2009 at 1:19 pm

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