How to manage local vs production settings in Django?

Question

What is the recommended way of handling settings for local development and the production server? Some of them (like constants, etc) can be changed/accessed in both, but s

Answer 1

I manage my configurations with the help of django-split-settings.

It is a drop-in replacement for the default settings. It is simple, yet configurable. And refactoring of your exisitng settings is not required.

Here's a small example (file example/settings/__init__.py):

from split_settings.tools import optional, include
import os

if os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] == 'example.settings':
    include(
        'components/default.py',
        'components/database.py',
        # This file may be missing:
        optional('local_settings.py'),

        scope=globals()
    )

That's it.

Update

I wrote a blog post about managing django's settings with django-split-sttings. Have a look!