OpenShift repo not included in path

I started a Django 1.7 OpenShift instance. When I have python print all of the paths from sys.path I do not see OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR (/var/lib/openshift/xxxxx/app-root/runtime/repo).

When I use https://github.com/jfmatth/openshift-django17 to create a project I do see OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR in the path.

Looking through the example app above I don't see anywhere that this is specifically added to the path. What am I missing?

To clarify: I have to add the following to my wsgi.py:

import os
import sys
ON_PASS = 'OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR' in os.environ
if ON_PASS:
    x = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.environ['OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR'], 'mysite'))
    sys.path.insert(1, x)
    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mysite.settings")

OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR is not in my path as I would expect. When I used the example git above, I did not have to add anything to the path.

Solution

This issue appears to be caused by trying to use the standard file structure layout that django produces when you use startproject. Openshift appears to need a flatter file structure. As soon as I moved wsgi up to a sibling of mysite it resolved the issue.