shiftpy

Tools for running Python Apps on OpenShift Red Hat Cloud

installation

pip install shiftpy

Available tools

env.getvar - Get openshift env var
env.listvars - Print all openshift env vars
env.getallvars - Get all vars as a dict
wsgi_utils.envify - Wrap wsgi app in Openshift Virtualenv
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getvar

> from shiftpy.env import getvar
> print getvar('HOMEDIR')
'app-root/w543543543543543/home/'

listvars

> from shiftpy.env import listvars
> listvars()
OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR = 'app-root/w543543543543543/home/'
OPENSHIFT_APP_NAME = 'yourappname'
...

getallvars

> from shiftpy.env import getallvars
> allvars = getallvars()
> print allvars
{'OPENSHIFT_FOO': 'BAR',
 'OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR': '/tmp',
 'OPENSHIFT_PYTHON_DIR': '/tmp/python'}

envify

This will wrap your wsgi app in virtualenv to OpenShift

from shiftpy.wsgi_utils import envify
from myproject import app

# wsgi expects an object named 'application'
application = envify(app)

then your app will be available for wsgi_mod and virtualenv is activated