Thanks! Basically the answer is that I wasn't aware of the possibility of those things and have tried to keep it as simple as possible. I made a skeleton proje

Thanks! Basically the answer is that I wasn't aware of the possibility of those things and have tried to keep it as simple as possible. I made a skeleton project for me as I couldn't find a decent guide for deploying django static's on s3. I fumbled my way through it and corrected and formalised it later so I could do it again. The https://github.com/rdegges/django-skel https://github.com/rdegges/django-skel project looks really useful as it contains everything and more you might want to use for a django project (and more), though not yet knowing what magic's it's doing I wouldn't yet jump to use. 1. That is very neat. I hope to try and copy that. 2. Noted. I didn't realise the need, as python 2.7.4 is the default. Can see it causing headaches if this were to change however. 3. Why is it dangerous? I preferred to keep the version numbers so it would always just install latest versions without any extra effort.