Question

Can I use a variable declared in the Django project’s settings.py in one of my module files?

For instance, using DATABASE_HOST = 'databasename'?

I’m trying to get the name of the server the application is currently deployed on you see.

Answer 1

You certainly can… it’s encouraged, in fact. To use it, import the settings from django.conf (this imports your project’s settings):

from django.conf import settings
print "My database host is %s" % settings.DATABASE_HOST

The documentation on Using settings in Python code explains why this works, and why this is preferable over importing the the settings.py module directly.