Look through https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SplitSettings for many
different approaches to loading settings from files that aren't importable
as Python modules.
My personal favorite is django-split-settings, which would let you
accomplish exactly what you're trying to do.
On Thu, Apr 6, 201
It looks like this issue has been marked as wontfix in
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/14952
However, I've used the following in manage.py to support running management
commands when distributing only .pyc files:
https://gist.github.com/cchurch/6067733
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:29 PM, J
I've used the execfile approach in my settings.py like so:
# Include any local settings that override the defaults.
try:
execfile('local_settings.py')
# Hack so that the autoreload will detect changes to local_settings.py.
class dummymodule(str):
__file__ = property(lambda self
