Fixed #2274 -- Fixed error in settings documentation. Thanks, Le Roux Bodenstein

Using settings in Python code

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In your Django apps, use settings by importing them from

In your Django apps, use settings by importing the object

``django.conf.settings``. Example::

    from django.conf.settings import DEBUG

    from django.conf import settings

    if DEBUG:

    if settings.DEBUG:

        # Do something

Note that your code should *not* import from either ``global_settings`` or

Note that ``django.conf.settings`` isn't a module -- it's an object. So

importing individual settings is not possible::

    from django.conf.settings import DEBUG  # This won't work.

Also note that your code should *not* import from either ``global_settings`` or

your own settings file. ``django.conf.settings`` abstracts the concepts of

default settings and site-specific settings; it presents a single interface.

It also decouples the code that uses settings from the location of your

You shouldn't alter settings in your applications at runtime. For example,

don't do this in a view::

    from django.conf.settings import DEBUG

    from django.conf import settings

    DEBUG = True   # Don't do this!

    settings.DEBUG = True   # Don't do this!

The only place you should assign to settings is in a settings file.