updated django from 1.4 to 1.5.1; now DeprecationWarning on setup_environ

Question

updated django from 1.4 to 1.5.1 now its throwing this:

DeprecationWarning: The 'setup_environ' function is deprecated, you likely need to update your 'manage.py'; please see the Django 1.4 release notes (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.4/).

First, I was already on v1.4 so why its showing this now? well..

manage.py already have this:

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mysite.settings")

but few apps using this:

from django.core.management import setup_environ
from mysite import settings
setup_environ(settings)

if I comment the above code it throws an error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting AUTH_USER_MODEL, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

so, I called 'settings.configure' and replaced the above code with:

from django.conf import settings
from mysite import settings as mysettings
settings.configure(mysettings, DEBUG=True)

but it's still throwing as error!

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'LOGGING_CONFIG'

basically 'setup_environ' is working but with the DeprecationWarning, how can I get ride of it? Obviously, I red the release notes 1.4 but can't figure this out..

Answer 1

I end up adding:

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mysite.settings") 

not only to my manage.py file, but also in the app files where I was calling 'setup_environ'. So, I replace this code:

from django.core.management import setup_environ
from mysite import settings
setup_environ(settings)

with:

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mysite.settings") 

No DeprecationWarning and seems like its working!