source: asadb/settings/fetch

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import sys

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cur_file = os.path.abspath(__file__)
    django_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(cur_file), '..'))
    sys.path.append(django_dir)
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'settings'

from django.conf import settings

if __name__ == "__main__":
    mode = sys.argv[1]
    if mode == 'setting':
        print getattr(settings, sys.argv[2])
    elif mode == 'database':
        # Uncomment below to set up default values
        # No, I'm not sure how somebody thought it was a good idea for
        # side-effect-ful imports to be a thing (well, it's probably partially
        # "who'd try to use database parameters except through a connection").
        #import django.db
        print settings.DATABASES['default'][sys.argv[2]]
    else:
        raise NotImplementedError, 'Requested mode "%s" not supported' % (mode, )