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Python Project Deployment

Overview​

The platform defaults to identifying it as a Python project based on whether there is a requirements.txt file in the root directory of the source code.

requirements.txt specification​

If there is no requirements.txt, you can generate it with the following command

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Django static file support​

Since Django static file support (CSS, images, etc.) is not easy to configure and inconvenient to debug, here is an example:

settings.py

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/static-files/

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
STATIC_ROOT = 'staticfiles'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)

By default, the system will automatically execute the following command during the Django application build to try to detect (--dry-run) whether the static file configuration is correct:

$ python manage.py collectstatic --dry-run --noinput

If this command does not report an error, the real command will be executed to copy the static files to the STATIC_ROOT directory:

$ python manage.py collectstatic --noinput

You can manually disable the above feature by setting the value of BUILD_DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC to 1 in the application's environment variables.

Deployment example​

Enter the team, create a new application, select Based on source code example to build, select Python Demo and default to all next steps.