Rewriting Reddit (2005)

Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by coldtea on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:44AM (#8520629)

>And all that django-specific logic that needs to be in there makes it harder to read unless you're familiar with the django ecosystem.

What "django-specific" logic? Those are standard imports and a few helper objects, the kind of which you'll find in any web framework.

[edit: importants => imports]

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by INTPenis on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @09:59AM (#8520940)

I've been using flask lately and I could compress four of those imports into one import in flask. And the settings aren't even necessary.

All these things, when compared to a true microframework, contribute in legibility of the code.

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by _stem on Thursday October 30, 2014 @03:40AM (#8531823)

You're right. Settings are not even necessary in my example, as we should be fine with defaults in most cases. The only lines you really need are these four:

  from django.conf import settings
  settings.configure(ROOT_URLCONF='polls')
  from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  application = get_wsgi_application()

You lose some of the Django niceties (like being able to provide your own custom settings on the command-line) but flask doesn't have them anyway.

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by coldtea on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @10:12AM (#8521003)

>And the settings aren't even necessary.

Until they are. Then you go ahead and implement an ad-hoc settings scheme.

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