Environment-based settings in Django - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to import the environment variable module.

Django

import os
SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get([1])

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A'SECRET_KEY'

B"DEBUG"

CSECRET_KEY

DDEBUG

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Forgetting to put quotes around the environment variable name.

Using variable names without quotes.

The os.environ.get function requires the environment variable name as a string, so it must be quoted.

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medium

Complete the code to set DEBUG mode from environment variable.

Django

DEBUG = os.environ.get([1], 'False') == 'True'

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ADEBUG

C"SECRET_KEY"

D'DEBUG'

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using unquoted variable names.

Confusing variable names.

The environment variable name must be a string, so it needs quotes.

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hard

Fix the error in loading ALLOWED_HOSTS from environment variable.

Django

ALLOWED_HOSTS = os.environ.get([1], '').split(',')

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AALLOWED_HOSTS

B'ALLOWED_HOSTS'

C"DEBUG"

Dallowed_hosts

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using unquoted variable names.

Using wrong variable names.

The environment variable name must be a string, so it needs quotes.

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hard

Fill both blanks to load database settings from environment variables.

Django

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': os.environ.get([1]),
        'USER': os.environ.get([2]),
    }
}

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A'DB_NAME'

B'DB_USER'

C'DATABASE_NAME'

D'DATABASE_USER'

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using wrong environment variable names.

Forgetting quotes around variable names.

Common environment variable names for database name and user are 'DB_NAME' and 'DB_USER'.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to set email backend settings from environment variables.

Django

EMAIL_BACKEND = os.environ.get([1], 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend')
EMAIL_HOST = os.environ.get([2], 'localhost')
EMAIL_PORT = int(os.environ.get([3], '25'))

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A'EMAIL_BACKEND'

B'EMAIL_HOST'

C'EMAIL_PORT'

D'EMAIL_USER'

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong or inconsistent environment variable names.

Not quoting the environment variable names.

The environment variables for email backend, host, and port are usually named 'EMAIL_BACKEND', 'EMAIL_HOST', and 'EMAIL_PORT'.