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+
+# Establish the common DatabaseOperations instance, which we call 'db'.
+# This code somewhat lifted from django evolution
+from django.conf import settings
+import sys
+module_name = ['south.db', settings.DATABASE_ENGINE]
+try:
+ module = __import__('.'.join(module_name),{},{},[''])
+except ImportError:
+ sys.stderr.write("There is no South database module for the engine '%s'. Please either choose a supported one, or remove South from INSTALLED_APPS.\n" % settings.DATABASE_ENGINE)
+ sys.exit(1)
+db = module.DatabaseOperations()
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