Settings

This class manages application configuration by loading and validating settings from a specified module and merging them with global defaults. It ensures that specific configuration keys are correctly formatted as tuples or lists and provides a mechanism to track which settings have been explicitly overridden. Additionally, the class handles environment-level side effects such as configuring the system time zone based on the provided settings.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
SETTINGS_MODULE	string	The Python path to the settings module used to initialize the class instance.
_explicit_settings	set	A set of setting names that were explicitly defined in the provided settings module rather than inherited from global defaults.

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Constructor

Signature

def Settings(
    settings_module: string
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
settings_module	string	The python path to the settings module to be loaded.

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Signature

def Settings(
    settings_module: string
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
settings_module	string	The Python import path to the module containing application-specific configuration settings.

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Methods

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is_overridden()

@classmethod
def is_overridden(
    setting: string
) - > boolean

Determines if a specific setting has been explicitly defined in the settings module rather than using a global default.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
setting	string	The name of the configuration setting to check for an explicit override.

Returns

Type	Description
boolean	True if the setting was explicitly defined in the user-provided settings module, False otherwise.

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