Django: how to exit in settings.py

Question

I have a Django website which has different settings for development and production ( DEBUG / SECRET_KEY , etc). Production provides these settings with environmental variables. In the settings.py file I want to exit if the expected settings aren't given like so:

if not DEBUG and SECRET_KEY == DEFAULT_SECRET_KEY:
    sys.exit("SECRET_KEY must be set when DEBUG = False")

Is it correct to exit in the settings.py file like this?

Answer 1

你应该提出ImproperlyConfigured ，它会干净地退出应用程序。