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Asked: 2026-06-10T20:16:56+00:00

I’m working on a Django project using two different machine, a Windows and a

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I’m working on a Django project using two different machine, a Windows and a Mac Os X. I have everything synchronized over Dropbox. The problem is that some settings in settings.py are single strings (e.g. the MEDIA_ROOT or the STATIC_ROOT) and not tuples. That means that I can set a proper path for, let’s say STATIC_ROOT for only one of the two OS. In the other one of course it won’t work.

I was wondering if there exist a way to recognize the OS python is running on and choose the proper setting through a condition according to it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You shouldn’t be setting absolute paths in the first place. Use something like os.path.dirname(__file__) to get the directory that settings.py is in, then combine it with the specific path piece, e.g.:

    STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static')

    Then, it no longer matters what platform you’re running on. FWIW, it’s typical to actually store the base path, since it will be needed so often, e.g.:

    PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)
...
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static')
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