How do I print out the contents of my settings in a django shell?

When I run python manage.py shell, I can print out the python path

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path

What should I type to introspect all my django settings ?

Solution 1:

from django.conf import settings
dir(settings)

and then choose attribute from what dir(settings) have shown you to say:

settings.name

where name is the attribute that is of your interest

Alternatively:

settings.__dict__

prints all the settings. But it prints also the module standard attributes, which may somewhat clutter the output.

I know that this is an old question, but with current versions of django (1.6+), you can accomplish this from the command line the following way:

python manage.py diffsettings --all

The result will show all of the settings including the defautls (denoted by ### in front of the settings name).

In case a newbie stumbles upon this question wanting to be spoon fed the way to print out the values for all settings:

def show_settings():
    from django.conf import settings
    for name in dir(settings):
        print(name, getattr(settings, name))

To show all django settings (including default settings not specified in your local settings file):

from django.conf import settings
dir(settings)

In your shell, you can call Django's built-in diffsettings:

from django.core.management.commands import diffsettings

output = diffsettings.Command().handle(default=None, output="hash", all=False)