django project root self discovery

Question

Ok so I recall there are some commands you could put in the settings.py file so that basically when you move your django project to another directory it won\'t

Answer 1

Django 1.8 already includes the project root directory as BASE_DIR:

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

And you can use it in your app by importing settings:

from django.conf import settings
...
...
print(settings.BASE_DIR)