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32764	pass getattr() for settings to the settings module	Mike Brancato	nobody	"When the Settings class loads the global settings, it roughly does the following.

1. Uses `importlib` to instantiate the settings module.
2. Iterates thru the upper-case attributes of the module.
3. Assigns the value of the module attribute to an attribute on the Settings class instance.

`setting_value = getattr(mod, setting)`

This effectively makes dynamic settings impossible. There are probably many use cases for settings which change during runtime, my use-case is dynamic credentials that rotate periodically. So I've used features from PEP-562 (requires Python 3.7) to make certain attributes of a module dynamic. The only requirement really is that `getattr()` be called on the module.

Is there any reason that the Settings class could not instead maintain a list of settings and use a `__getattr__` method to check known settings and pass those to the module?

"	New feature	closed	Core (Other)	3.2	Normal	duplicate			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0