Django: how to pass individual setting to manage.py

Question

I'm looking for a way to override/define some individual django setting from command line without additional settings files.

What I need right now is to set the DEBUG setting or logging level each time when I run my management command. But it would be nice to be able to set anything.

Answer 1

In settings.py you can check for command line arguments, like this:

import sys

# for testing
if "--enable-wiki" in sys.argv:
    ENABLE_WIKI = True
    sys.argv.remove("--enable-wiki")

Usage:

./manage.py test --enable-wiki MyApp.tests