django settings per application - best practice?

Question

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Why is django's settings object a LazyObject?

In my django project i have several applications. Each application can ha

Answer 1

My site is just starting and I want a the simplest but flexible configuration solution. That's what I came across with.

# in the end of the site's settings.py
. . .
# Custom settings
MYAPP_CONFIG_FILE = "/home/user/config/myapp_config.ini"

In my application's models.py:

from django.conf import settings
import configparser

config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read(settings.MYAPP_CONFIG_FILE, encoding='utf_8')

This config parser is described here. It's convenient enough but definitely not the only option.