How do settings like APP_TITLE get their values loaded?

In forum/views/readers.py, where does the variable settings (e.g. in settings.APP_TITLE on line 77) get its value? I see no import of settings anywhere in this file.

I realize this is a rather low-level Python code question, but it is relevant to my efforts to customize OSQA. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

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asked 02 Nov '10, 20:23

Kevin Yank
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edited 12 Jan '11, 23:10

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APP_TITLE is declared in 'forum/settings/basic.py' as a "Setting" object; I can't see how that relates to putting it into scope at the point you indicate either, but it must be relevant somehow.

(12 Jan '11, 23:07) john

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It probably comes from some other import, like from somewhere import *. In this case probaly forum.forms. When you do an import like that in python you import everything in that namespace, including stuff imported from other places, unless the imported file writes the __all__ builtin list directly.

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answered 02 Nov '10, 20:29

Hernani Cerq... ♦♦
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To be clear, then, the correct way to access OSQA’s settings module is to from forum import settings, right?

(03 Nov '10, 00:05) Kevin Yank

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