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Dynamic Django settings context processor

Here's a nice way of easily passing only certain settings variables to the template. Because of the way Django looks up context processors, we need a little hack with sys.modules.

import sys

from django.conf import settings as django_settings

class SettingsProcessor(object):
    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        if attr == '__file__':
            # autoreload support in dev server
            return __file__
        else:
            return lambda request: {attr: getattr(django_settings, attr)}

sys.modules[__name__ + '.settings'] = SettingsProcessor()

Assuming this is placed in a file called utils/context_processors.py, you can use this from the settings.py file like so:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    # ....
    'utils.context_processors.settings.GOOGLEMAPS_KEY',
    'utils.context_processors.settings.TEMPLATE_DEBUG',
    'utils.context_processors.settings.MAXMIND_URL',
)

Nice and simple.