From 94993b769a5a2ad6c4414156d13a2d2e39060e3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: olveyra <none@none>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:59:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added SCRAPY_PICKLED_DEFAULT_SETTINGS, a string to pass by
 environment setting an arbitrary set of settings via "pickle" python module.

--HG--
extra : convert_revision : svn%3Ab85faa78-f9eb-468e-a121-7cced6da292c%4051
---
 scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py
index dbe42e26b..eef6a1717 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import os
+import os, pickle
 
 SETTINGS_MODULE = os.environ.get('SCRAPYSETTINGS_MODULE', 'scrapy_settings')
 
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ class Settings(object):
     def __init__(self):
         self.overrides = {}
         self.settings = self._import(SETTINGS_MODULE)
-        self.defaults = {}
+        pickled_defaults = os.environ.get("SCRAPY_PICKLED_DEFAULT_SETTINGS")
+        self.defaults = pickle.loads(pickled_defaults) if pickled_defaults else {}
         self.core = self._import('scrapy.conf.core_settings')
 
     def _import(self, modulepath):