Import settings in Django

Question

I have three settings files in my project:

settings.py

#common settings

development.py

#settings for development
from settings import *
SOME_VARIABLE = some_value1

production.py

#settings for production
from settings import *
SOME_VARIABLE = some_value2

I would like import SOME_VARIABLE in my django app.

• for manage.py runserver --setttings=development should import SOME VARIABLE from development.py
• for manage.py runserver --setttings=production should import SOME VARIABLE from production.py

Answer 1

In your apps you should use settings like this:

from django.conf import settings
...
settings.SOME_VARIABLE

You should not worry where they come from.