DJ-Database-URL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This simple Django utility allows you to utilize the
`12factor <http://www.12factor.net/backing-services>`_ inspired
``DATABASE_URL`` environment variable to configure your Django application.


Usage
-----

Configure your database in ``settings.py`` from ``DATABASE_URL``::

    DATABASES['default'] = dj_database_url.config()

Parse an arbitrary Database URL::

    DATABASES['default'] = dj_database_url.parse('postgres://...')

Supported databases
-------------------

Support currently exists for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.

SQLite connects to file based databases. The same URL format is used, omitting
the hostname, and using the "file" portion as the filename of the database.
This has the effect of four slashes being present for an absolute file path:
``sqlite:////full/path/to/your/database/file.sqlite``.

Installation
------------

Installation is simple too::

    $ pip install dj-database-url

DJ-Database-URL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This simple Django utility allows you to utilize the
`12factor <http://www.12factor.net/backing-services>`_ inspired
``DATABASE_URL`` environment variable to configure your Django application.


Usage
-----

Configure your database in ``settings.py`` from ``DATABASE_URL``::

    DATABASES = {'default': dj_database_url.config()}

Parse an arbitrary Database URL::

    DATABASES = {'default': dj_database_url.parse('postgres://...')}

Supported databases
-------------------

Support currently exists for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.

SQLite connects to file based databases. The same URL format is used, omitting
the hostname, and using the "file" portion as the filename of the database.
This has the effect of four slashes being present for an absolute file path:
``sqlite:////full/path/to/your/database/file.sqlite``.

Installation
------------

Installation is simple too::

    $ pip install dj-database-url

Set the DATABASES dict rather than assigning to it.
Set the DATABASES dict rather than assigning to it.

Basically just to allow more copy-pasting from the README. I know it should be obvious but it was instinct to copy verbatim.