Django views not getting setting variables

Question

Views.py is not picking up anything from settings.py

views.py has import on top

from django.conf import settings

if tried to run in this file

name =  settings.APP_NAME

it throws this error

AttributeError at /test/app
'_CheckLogin' object has no attribute 'APP_NAME'

Answer 1

You must have redefined settings elsewhere in the module.

Answer 2

I think we need more information. Is it possible you're overwriting your settings variable? This suggests that your settings object is a '_CheckLogin' object Try to debug with pdb. Here's a good tutorial: http://simonwillison.net/2008/May/22/debugging/