[Dev-flock] ideas for referencing our db.models outside of django?

[Lucy Mendel]

yo,
I'm trying to get one of our application's Node objects outside of our
Django app. Maybe this is the wrong way to go about cellphone
integration. It seems like a fine idea: import application and
settings stuff; use API to get a node (eventually, do search? not sure
how to do that yet). Problem is, even though the DATABASE_ENGINE is
defined, Django doesn't think it is. I've tried importing more django
things, but I get the same error.
Does something obvious strike you? Alternate ideas for how these
systems should relate?

/var/sites/cellphone_staging/prototype $ export
PYTHONPATH=/var/sites/hm_staging:/var/sites/cellphone_sta
/prototype:/usr/local/django_src/django
/var/sites/cellphone_staging/prototype $ export
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=/var/sites/cellphone_staging/prototype
/var/sites/cellphone_staging/prototype $ python
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr  5 2007, 20:11:18)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from settings import *
>>> from db.models import *
>>> Node
<class 'db.graph.Node'>
>>> Node.objects.get(id=2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/models/manager.py",
line 69, in get
    return self.get_query_set().get(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 261, in get
    obj_list = list(clone)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 114, in __iter__
    return iter(self._get_data())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 483, in _get_data
    self._result_cache = list(self.iterator())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 180, in iterator
    select, sql, params = self._get_sql_clause()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py",
line 491, in _get_sql_clause
    select = ["%s.%s" % (qn(opts.db_table), qn(f.column)) for f in opts.fields]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/dummy/base.py",
line 14, in complain
    raise ImproperlyConfigured, "You haven't set the DATABASE_ENGINE
setting yet."
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You haven't set the
DATABASE_ENGINE setting yet.
>>> DATABASE_ENGINE
'mysql'
>>>