Exploring Django settings
We haven’t yet looked at how Django stores its settings. Now that we’ve seen the different parts of Django, it is a good time to examine the settings.py file. There are many settings Django contains that can be used to customize it. A default settings.py file was created for you when you started the Bookr project. We will discuss some of the more important settings in the file now, and a few others that might be useful as you become more fluent with Django. You should open your settings.py file in PyCharm and follow along so that you can see where and what the values are for your project.
Each setting in this file is just a file-global variable. The order in which we will discuss the settings is the same order in which they appear in this file, although we may skip over some – for example, there is the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting between DEBUG and INSTALLED_APPS, which we won’t cover in this part of the book (you’ll see it in...
