[Question] Unclear docs - how to use with settings as a package

[Jan Gazda]

The very first sentence says Very much a work in progress, but reads the standard DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable

in my current layout, I have settings as a package where all environments inherit from base.py
and then environment-specific values, I'm not sure how could I use this project with the layout.

├── __init__.py
├── base.py
├── local.py
├── production.py
├── staging.py
└── test.py

Here is what I'd do:

base.py

from pydantic_settings.settings import PydanticSettings

class MyBase(PydanticSettings)
   ....

local.py

from .base import MyBase

class MyLocal(MyBase):
    ....

then I assume that content of asgi.py would call the correct file based on DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE.

from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
from pydantic_settings import SetUp
SetUp().configure()

application = get_asgi_application()

Is that correct?

Thank you!

[Josh Ourisman]

It's been a while since I've set up a new project, but this is the specific use-case I built this for (based on older projects of mine using django-configurations). In your specific case, DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE should be set to something like my_project.settings.local.MyLocal.