Django settings outside of project

Question

I have a Django project that uses SQLAlchemy to use some legacy ORM objects. This application also hits up an ldap server for user authentication. I was getting sick of moving from development to production servers for both ldap and the database. I was hoping to create a IS_DEVELOPMENT variable in the settings.py. One problem I am running into is that the ORM modules are not in the Django project.

I know django.conf does a great job of parsing that settings file and making those settings available to you throughout your application. What I can not figure out is how to make those same settings available to myself outside of that app.

Anyone done this one before?

Answer 1

"Standalone Django Scripts"