django_compressor

If you're using Django, you might want to look into Django-Compressor (https://github.com/mintchaos/django_compressor#readme). It doesn't QUITE get what you're looking for as for the naming pattern, but it does automatically take your .css files, compress them into one (removing unnecessary whitespace and the like), and then replace: <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style2.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style3.css" /> to something like: <link rel="stylesheet" href="/ax502b7.css" /> I'm currently working a bunch with Flask, which has something similar (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask-Assets) that I'm not yet using, but I've gotten the basics down with SASS tacked into a Fabric script that compiles my CSS on each deploy. Thus far, this has meant a cache purge when deploying new assets, as I

I much prefer django-compressor (https://github.com/mintchaos/django_compressor) and similar apps which allow the template designer - instead of a developer - to define the asset files. Just wrap your stylesheet definitions in {% compress css %}{% endcompress %} (same for JS) and they get merged, minified, and updated automatically. No need to go into the settings.py to add a stylesheet.