From d4ddc06021a6c39665949111d9e9e9b2c4675ae6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:03:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Changed core.db to give a friendlier error message if the DATABASE_ENGINE setting is invalid git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@160 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- django/core/db/__init__.py | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/django/core/db/__init__.py b/django/core/db/__init__.py index 8c20ef4068..fc9dd75f61 100644 --- a/django/core/db/__init__.py +++ b/django/core/db/__init__.py @@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ let us do that. from django.conf.settings import DATABASE_ENGINE -dbmod = __import__('django.core.db.backends.%s' % DATABASE_ENGINE, '', '', ['']) +try: + dbmod = __import__('django.core.db.backends.%s' % DATABASE_ENGINE, '', '', ['']) +except ImportError: + from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured + raise ImproperlyConfigured, "Your DATABASE_ENGINE setting, %r, is invalid. Is it spelled correctly?" % DATABASE_ENGINE DatabaseError = dbmod.DatabaseError db = dbmod.DatabaseWrapper()