Is there a function for generating settings.SECRET_KEY in django?

Question

I wrote an ansible-role for openwisp2 to ease its deployment, it's a series of django apps. To ease the deployment as much as possible, I wrote a simple (probably trivial) SECRET_KEY generator script which is called by ansible to generate the secret key the first time the ansible playbook is run.

Now, that works fine BUT I think it defeats the built-in security measures Django has in generating a strong key which is also very hard to guess.

At the time I looked at other ways of doing it but didn't find much, now I wonder: is there a function for generating settings.SECRET_KEY in django?

That would avoid this kind of home baked solutions that even though they work they are not effective when it comes to security.

Answer 1

Note that this may not be safe to use for production, as S Ghosh is pointing out in a post below. But copy and paste this after running django-admin shell for example to quickly get a key.

from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key   get_random_secret_key()