django-etcsettings

This simple thing allows you to factor out environment-dependant settings like database connection parameters and such from your huge settings.py into nice and clean YAML config placed anywhere in the filesystem.

Usage

Add the following line to your settings.py file:

from etcsettings.settings import *

When running pass the ETCSETTINGS_FILE environment variable pointing to the YAML file with additional settings, e. g.:

ETCSETTINGS_FILE=/etc/mycompany/myproject/settings.yaml ./manage.py runserver ...

This will load the mentioned file and mix up it's contents to Django settings module.