Using Django template functions in App Engine scripts

Question

I want to use Django's slugify template function in my GAE script. When I use it in a HTML template, it works fine. But when trying the following import:

from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify

got this error:

File "/home/karlis/bin/google_appengine/lib/django_0_96/django/conf/__init__.py", line 53, in _import_settings
raise EnvironmentError, "Environment variable %s is undefined." % ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE
EnvironmentError: Environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.

For a temporary solution I just copied the function from django files to a local file, but the question remains: is it possible to use template functions like this and what should I put in the settings file?

Answer 1

This might work (without actually creating a settings module):

import os
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'settings'

from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify