how to modularize django settings.py?

Question

When you install a new django application, you have to add/modify your settings.py module.

For a project I\'m trying to make that module a python subpackage and crea

Answer 1

Presumably the best way to "merge" varies, attributes by attributes. For example, given several tuples (from the INSTALLED_APPS of various submodules), you might simply concatenate them into a new tuple (for the INSTALLED_APPS attribute of the package as a whole), or, if possible duplications are a problem, so something smarter to remove the duplications (in this case you may not care about ordering, so simply tuple(set(tup1+tup2+tup3)) might suffice).

For other cases ("merging" dictionaries, "merging" settings which are just scalars or strings, etc) you'll need different strategies (maybe successive .update calls for the dictionaries, pick just one according to some criteria for the scalars or strings, etc, etc) -- I just don't see a "one size fits all" approach working here.