Django SECRET_KEY generation

Wed, 13 May 2020 22:13:52 +0000

Generate django `SECRET_KEY`s on the command line using this “one-liner” (django not required)

Background

Django is a Python web framework with a lot of nice features including an exceptional ORM and high quality documentation. Most of my experience with django has been deploying and debugging other people’s projects - during the course of which I often want to regenerate the SECRET_KEY that underpins most of the security of every deployment.

The django settings docs describe the SECRET_KEY:

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Django SECRET_KEY generation

Generate django SECRET_KEYs on the command line using this “one-liner” (django not required)

Background

Generate django `SECRET_KEY`s on the command line using this “one-liner” (django not required)