How to define a default value for a custom Django setting

In my apps, I have a seperate settings.py file. In that file I have a get() function that does a look up in the projects settings.py file and if not found returns the default value.

from django.conf import settings

def get(key, default):
    return getattr(settings, key, default)


APPLES = get('APPLES', 1)

Then where I need to access APPLES I have:

from myapp import settings as myapp_settings

myapp_settings.APPLES

This allows an override in the projects settings.py, getattr will check there first and return the value if the attribute is found or use the default defined in your apps settings file.