Simplifies settings setup.

benchmark.py

@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@
 from random import choice
 from time import time
 
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    from settings import configure
-    configure()
+os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'settings')
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group

benchmark_requirements.txt

@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
--r requirements.txt
-psycopg2
-MySQL-python
-django-redis
-python-memcached
-South
+-r runtests_requirements.txt
 
 pandas
 matplotlib

runtests.py

@@ -2,13 +2,12 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
+import os
 import sys
 
-from settings import configure
-
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    configure()
+    os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'settings')
     from django.test.runner import DiscoverRunner
     test_runner = DiscoverRunner()
     failures = test_runner.run_tests(['cachalot.tests'])

runtests_requirements.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+-r requirements.txt
+psycopg2
+MySQL-python
+django-redis
+python-memcached
+South

settings.py

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 import os
 
 import django
-from django.conf import settings
 
 
 DATABASES = {
@@ -32,8 +31,8 @@
     else:
         DATABASES[alias]['TEST'] = {'NAME': test_db_name}
 
-DEFAULT_DATABASE_KEY = os.environ.get('DB_ENGINE', 'sqlite3')
-DATABASES['default'] = DATABASES.pop(DEFAULT_DATABASE_KEY)
+DATABASES['default'] = DATABASES.pop(os.environ.get('DB_ENGINE', 'sqlite3'))
+
 
 CACHES = {
     'locmem': {
@@ -48,8 +47,9 @@
         'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
     },
 }
-DEFAULT_CACHE_KEY = os.environ.get('CACHE_BACKEND', 'locmem')
-CACHES['default'] = CACHES.pop(DEFAULT_CACHE_KEY)
+
+CACHES['default'] = CACHES.pop(os.environ.get('CACHE_BACKEND', 'locmem'))
+
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'cachalot',
@@ -60,14 +60,5 @@
     INSTALLED_APPS.append('south')
 
 
-def configure():
-    settings.configure(
-        INSTALLED_APPS=INSTALLED_APPS,
-        DATABASES=DATABASES,
-        CACHES=CACHES,
-        MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES=(),
-        PASSWORD_HASHERS=('django.contrib.auth.hashers.MD5PasswordHasher',),
-    )
-
-    if django.VERSION[:2] >= (1, 7):
-        django.setup()
+PASSWORD_HASHERS = ('django.contrib.auth.hashers.MD5PasswordHasher',)
+SECRET_KEY = 'it’s not important but we have to set it'