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It took me a while to figure this out, so I’m writing it down.

What I wanted was to have my django.wsgi script use the production settings and to have bin/django use the development settings.  Sounds easy, right?  It’s not obvious what the right way to accomplish this is, but here’s what I’ve come up with for my zc.buildout script:

[buildout]
parts = django djangoprod

[django]
recipe = djangorecipe
version = 1.2
settings = development
project = project 

[djangoprod]
recipe = djangorecipe
version = ${django:version}
settings = production
wsgi = true
project = ${django:project}

By specifying 2 different djangorecipe based rules, we can create both bin/django and bin/djangoprod.wsgi.  djangoprod.wsgi will use production settings, and bin/django will use development settings, which is in general, what you want for a develop & deploy buildout script.