import django.conf from django.utils.functional import cached_property class Settings: """ This is a simple class to take the place of the global settings object. An instance will contain all of our settings as attributes, with default values if they are not specified by the configuration. """ @cached_property def defaults(self): return { 'OTP_LOGIN_URL': django.conf.settings.LOGIN_URL, 'OTP_ADMIN_HIDE_SENSITIVE_DATA': False, } def __getattr__(self, name): if name in self.defaults: return getattr(django.conf.settings, name, self.defaults[name]) else: return getattr(django.conf.settings, name) settings = Settings()