Python Build Pack

The Python Build Pack (PBP) is a build pack for running Python and Django apps on Heroku.

If requirements.txt is present, the PBP considers the directory a Python app with packages to install via pip.

Furthermore, if ${PROJECT}/settings.py is present, the PBP considers the directory a Python/Django app, and patches settings.py to parse the Heroku DATABASE_URL config vars. It then sets default process types to use the Django web server.

External Build Pack

Cutting-edge development is taking place in this repo. To use this on Heroku, set a BUILDPACK_URL config var with a fully authenticated URL to this repo:

$ heroku config:add BUILDPACK_URL=https://nzoschke:XXXXXXX@github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python.git

On next push, slug-compiler will use this BP instead of the built-in one.