How to manage local vs production settings in Django?

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What is the recommended way of handling settings for local development and the production server? Some of them (like constants, etc) can be changed/accessed in both, but some of them (like paths to static files) need to remain different, and hence should not be overwritten every time the new code is deployed.

Currently, I am adding all constants to settings.py. But every time I change some constant locally, I have to copy it to the production server and edit the file for production specific changes... :(

Edit: looks like there is no standard answer to this question, I've accepted the most popular method.

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I think the best solution is suggested by @T. Stone, but I don't know why just don't use the DEBUG flag in Django. I Write the below code for my website:

if DEBUG:
    from .local_settings import *

Always the simple solutions are better than complex ones.

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