Django application onload?

Question

Is there a way to hook on the loading of the django application? I want to be able to execute code when the application is loaded, so that I can for example create static variables to be used later on by the application or establish connections to other servers.

The best I came across was to add code in the __init__.py file (How do I create application scope variable django?) but the problem with this solution is that I want my code to be executed after django has finished its startup process, and not in the middle/start of it.

Another solution I came up with is to have a view that handles this process and then when the application is deployed I issue a request to the url of the view. I don't like this solution very much, I prefer it to be a part of the loading of the application.

Any ideas of how to pull this out? Thanks;

edit: Apllication refers to the entire django project and not one of the INSTALLED_APPS

Answer 1

Right now, there's really no good way to do this as Django doesn't have a startup signal. Interestingly, there is a ticket for this, but it's strangely tied to a branch that is being held up by another ticket. I'm not sure if Django 1.4 is feature-locked, yet, but as it's in release candidate stage, my bet is that it is. So, maybe you might get this in Django 1.5 whenever that happens.