How do you configure Django for simple development and deployment?

Question

I tend to use SQLite when doing Django development, but on a live server something more robust is often needed (MySQL/PostgreSQL, for example). Invariably, there are other c

Answer 1

At the end of settings.py I have the following:

try:
    from settings_local import *
except ImportError:
    pass

This way if I want to override default settings I need to just put settings_local.py right next to settings.py.