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

I use environment:

if os.environ.get('WEB_MODE', None) == 'production' :
   from settings_production import *
else :
   from settings_dev import *

I believe this is a much better approach, because eventually you need special settings for your test environment, and you can easily add it to this condition.