Commit 806ea3a1 authored by Malcolm Tredinnick's avatar Malcolm Tredinnick
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Changed the "write your own settings" recommendation to mention that Django 

uses tuples, but not making it a recommendation. That might head off the endless
tuples vs. lists debates.

Fixed #8846.


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@9146 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/topics/settings.txt

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@@ -160,10 +160,11 @@ There's nothing stopping you from creating your own settings, for your own 
Django apps. Just follow these conventions:



    * Setting names are in all uppercase.

    * For settings that are sequences, use tuples instead of lists. This is

      purely for performance.

    * Don't reinvent an already-existing setting.



For settings that are sequences, Django itself uses tuples, rather than lists,

but this is only a convention.



.. _settings-without-django-settings-module:



Using settings without setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE