avoid loading settings.py for compilemessages

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/manage.py b/manage.py
index 4974cdf..5f694d8 100755
--- a/manage.py
+++ b/manage.py
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ import os
 import sys
 
 def main():
-    os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'talerbank.settings')
+    if "compilemessages" not in sys.argv:
+        os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'talerbank.settings')
     try:
         from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
     except ImportError as exc: