From 7872fc0dab2ad9971fb044b73ff33980aa4e7381 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aymeric Augustin Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:13:37 +0000 Subject: Fixed #16247 -- Removed wildcard expansion of application names in INSTALLED_APPS. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17158 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/releases/1.4.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/releases/1.4.txt b/docs/releases/1.4.txt index 10cbe3dba9..ea7038430c 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.4.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.4.txt @@ -953,3 +953,16 @@ Session cookies now include the ``httponly`` attribute by default to help reduce the impact of potential XSS attacks. For strict backwards compatibility, use ``SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY = False`` in settings. +Wildcard expansion of application names in `INSTALLED_APPS` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Until Django 1.3, :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` accepted wildcards in application +names, like ``django.contrib.*``. The expansion was performed by a +filesystem-based implementation of ``from import *``. Unfortunately, +`this can't be done reliably`_. + +This behavior was never documented. Since it is un-pythonic and not obviously +useful, it was removed in Django 1.4. If you relied on it, you must edit your +settings file to list all your applications explicitly. + +.. _this can't be done reliably: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#importing-from-a-package -- cgit v1.3