Django - How to share configuration constants within an app?

Question

It is sometimes beneficial to share certain constants between various code files in a django application.

Examples:
- Name or location of dump file used in various modules\commands etc
- Debug mode on\off for the entire app
- Site specific configuration

What would be the elegant\pythonic way of doing this?

Answer 1

There's already a project-wide settings.py file. This is the perfect place to put your own custom setttings.

Answer 2

you can provide settings in your settings.py like

MY_SETTING = 'value'

and in any module you can fetch it like

from django.conf import settings
settings.MY_SETTING