How can I correctly set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE for my Django project (I am using virtualenv)?

Question

I am having some trouble setting the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE for my Django project.

I have a directory at ~/dev/django-project. In this directory I have

Answer 1

My favourite alternative is passing settings file as runtime parameter to manage.py in a python package syntax, e.g:

python manage.py runserver --settings folder.filename

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