Managing multiple settings.py files [duplicate]

Answer 1

The trick that seems to be the most common is to maintain both a settings.py and local_settings.py (one for each environment) file.

Environment agnostic settings go into settings.py and at the bottom of the file, you'll import from local_settings.py

try:
    from local_settings import *
except ImportError:
    pass

You can override any settings.py settings in the appropriate local_settings.py