Whilst developing I want to handle some things slight differently than I will when I eventually upload to the Google servers.
Is there a quick test that I can do to find out if I'm in the SDK or live?
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A:
See: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html#The_Environment
The following environment variables are part of the CGI standard, with special behavior in App Engine:
SERVER_SOFTWARE:In the development web server, this value is "
Development/X.Y" where "X.Y" is the version of the runtime.When running on App Engine, this value is "
Google App Engine/X.Y.Z".
The MYYN
2009-12-16 18:17:22
Thanks something like this works for me now:import osdef development(): if os.environ['SERVER_SOFTWARE'].find('Development') == 0: return True else: return False
2009-12-16 18:34:49
It's eaten my formatting in the comment, but you know what I mean. Cheers
2009-12-16 18:35:39
Simpler: os.environ['SERVER_SOFTWARE'].startswith('Development')
Dave W. Smith
2009-12-21 01:35:37
A:
Based on the same trick, I use this function in my code:
def isLocal():
return os.environ["SERVER_NAME"] in ("localhost", "www.lexample.com")
I have customized my /etc/hosts file in order to be able to access the local version by prepending a "l" to my domain name, that way it is really easy to pass from local to production.
Example:
- production url is
www.example.com - development url is
www.lexample.com
Emilien
2009-12-20 20:37:34