django-settings-expose 0.1.0

Fast, cached Django settings exporter to templates.

django-settings-expose

A modern, high-performance, and cached Django context processor that safely exposes specific settings to your templates.

This is a heavily optimized drop-in replacement for the unmaintained django-settings-export package. Unlike the original implementation, django-settings-expose caches your exposed settings in memory at server startup, introducing zero performance overhead on later template renders.

Features

• ⚡ Zero-overhead: Settings are read and cached once when the server boots.
• 🔒 Secure: Only whitelisted settings in SETTINGS_EXPOSE are exposed.
• 🛑 Fail-fast: Throws clear, descriptive errors during development if you typo a setting name or try to access an unexposed variable in a template.

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Installation

Install the package directly from PyPI:

pip install django-settings-expose

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Configuration

1. Add the context processor to your settings.py inside the TEMPLATES configuration:

# settings.py

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        # ...
        "OPTIONS": {
            "context_processors": [
                # ...
                # Add this line:
                "django_settings_expose.settings_expose",
            ],
        },
    },
]

2. Define the list of settings you want to expose to your templates using SETTINGS_EXPOSE:

# settings.py

API_VERSION = "v1.2.6"
COMPANY_NAME = "My Awesome Company"
SECRET_KEY = "super-secret"  # Keep this safe!

# Whitelist variables to be accessible in templates
SETTINGS_EXPOSE = [
    "API_VERSION",
    "COMPANY_NAME",
]

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Usage in Templates

All exposed settings are made available via a globally accessible {{ settings }} dictionary variable:

<footer>
  <p>Copyright © 2026 {{ settings.COMPANY_NAME }}</p>
  <p>API Version: {{ settings.API_VERSION }}</p>
</footer>

Error Handling

To protect you from typos and silent bugs, the library will raise explicit exceptions:

• If a variable listed in SETTINGS_EXPOSE is missing from settings.py, it throws an UndefinedSettingError on startup.
• If a template attempts to access a variable that wasn't whitelisted (e.g., {{ settings.SECRET_KEY }}), it throws an UnexposedSettingError.

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License & Acknowledgements

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.

It is based on the original concept of django-settings-export by Jakub Roztocil <[e-mail]> (Copyright © 2014). Modified and optimized by Vladimir Klimenko <[e-mail]> (Copyright © 2026).