Question

To be able to use the idle shell with django i am trying to set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_VARIABLE manually.I included the directory where the settings.py resides in the sys.path.and was able to import it.but the following doesn’t seem to work .

  import settings
  from django.core.management import execute_manager
  execute_manager(settings)

I also tried

 settings = imp.find_module('settings')
 execute_manager(settings)

taking clue from manage.py but of no help. what’s going on here , also how can a file be imported as a module , i remember a module needs to have a inti file inside a dir .

Answer 1

You should be using configure()

from django.conf import settings
from myapp import myapp_defaults

settings.configure(default_settings=myapp_defaults, DEBUG=True)