Question

I am starting a new (actually very old) project which I know is in Django. I am getting lost knowing the exact version of Django it has been build upon. Is there a way I can know the version of Django my application is running?

Answer 1

The only way is to take a guess. I would start by looking at the created date of the settings.py file (or other base project files)

Release dates for versions:

• 1.0: September 2008. (?)
• 1.1: July 29, 2009 [1]
• 1.2: May 17, 2010 [2]
• 1.3: March 23, 2011 [3]

Having in your urls.py:[4]

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin

or having an admin.py file in an application [5] suggests that it is a 1.0+ project.

Having in your urls.py: [6]

(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

would suggest 1.1+.

Having in your settings.py file:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'NAME': 'app_data',
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'USER': 'postgres_user',
        'PASSWORD': 's3krit'
    },
    'users': {
        'NAME': 'user_data',
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'USER': 'mysql_user',
        'PASSWORD': 'priv4te'
    }
}

would suggest 1.2+.

[1]: 1.1 release notes

[2]: 1.2 release notes

[3]: 1.3 release notes

[4]: Backwards Incompatible changes 0.96 > 1.0

[5]: Backwards Incompatible changes 0.96 > 1.0

[6]: Multiple databases