Why not just do an import for your custom settings?
try:
from site_settings import *
except ImportError:
pass
On Mar 22, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Kristaps Kūlis
> <kristaps.ku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I personally would greatly appreciate update in docs to show "best
>> way" to handle per enviroment settings / sensitive settings, as now
>> there is many ways :)
>> Consider when one has his local development enviroment with locmem
>> cache and sqlite3 db, and staging server with MySQL / memcache and
>> production cluster with MySQL (different credentials) and memcache
>> cluster. In settings.py most deployment specific stuff is left blank
>> and on deployment {staging/production}_settings.py is created with
>> from settings import * and then overriding per env settings :).
>> Actually it took me far too much googling to find "how" and "what" to
>> do, at least I believe that such stuff should be put in docs to make
>> django more sysadmin friendly.
>
> I don't know what the best way is, but I will share what we do. In
> addition to the regular settings.py we have site_settings.py (which is
> not under version control) in the same directory. Then at the end of
> settings.py we add this simple code:
>
> # Run a separate python file not in version control for database
> # settings and other sensitive information.
> from os.path import dirname, join
> execfile(join(dirname(__file__), 'site_settings.py'))
>
> Cheers,
> Ian
>
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