  Any existing Django settings file will continue to work as expected until
  Django 1.4. Until then, old-style database settings will be automatically
  translated to the new-style format.
  
  In the old-style (pre 1.2) format, you had a number of ``DATABASE_`` settings
  in your settings file. For example::
  
      DATABASE_NAME = 'test_db'
      DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql_psycopg2'
      DATABASE_USER = 'myusername'
      DATABASE_PASSWORD = 's3krit'
 
</s> remove Any existing Django settings file will continue to work as expected until
Django 1.4. Until then, old-style database settings will be automatically
translated to the new-style format.
 </s> add Any existing Django settings file will continue to work as expected
until Django 1.4. Until then, old-style database settings will be
automatically translated to the new-style format. </s> remove Prior to Django 1.1, Django used a number of settings to control access to a
single database. Django 1.2 introduces support for multiple databases, and as
a result, the way you define database settings has changed.
 </s> add Prior to Django 1.1, Django used a number of settings to control
access to a single database. Django 1.2 introduces support for
multiple databases, and as a result the way you define database
settings has changed. </s> remove These settings are now in a dictionary named :setting:`DATABASES`. Each item in
the dictionary corresponds to a single database connection, with the name
``'default'`` describing the default database connection. The setting names
have also been shortened. The previous sample settings would now look like this::
 </s> add These settings are now in a dictionary named
:setting:`DATABASES`. Each item in the dictionary corresponds to a
single database connection, with the name ``'default'`` describing the
default database connection. The setting names have also been
shortened. The previous sample settings would now look like this:: </s> remove iterating over __dict__ to obtain a list of fields, you must now
filter the ``_state`` attribute out of ``__dict__``.
 </s> add iterating over ``__dict__`` to obtain a list of fields, you must now
be prepared to handle or filter out the ``_state`` attribute.
In the old-style (pre 1.2) format, you had a number of ``DATABASE_``
settings in your settings file. For example::
  Any existing Django settings file will continue to work as expected until
  Django 1.4. Until then, old-style database settings will be automatically
  translated to the new-style format.
  
In the old-style (pre 1.2) format, you had a number of ``DATABASE_``
settings in your settings file. For example::
In the old-style (pre 1.2) format, you had a number of ``DATABASE_``
settings in your settings file. For example::
  
      DATABASE_NAME = 'test_db'
      DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql_psycopg2'
      DATABASE_USER = 'myusername'
      DATABASE_PASSWORD = 's3krit'
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docs/releases/1.2.txt