Random generation for django SECRET_KEY variable designed for GitHub projects - remove the declaration of the SECRET_KEY in settings.py and replace it with this. Upon the webapp first being run, a file named SECRET_KEY is created in the <project_name> folder. This removes the risk of someone downloading a project without then forgetting to adjus…

django-random-secret-key.py

import random
import string

try:
    with open('<PROJECT_NAME>/SECRET_KEY', 'r') as secret_key_file:
        SECRET_KEY = secret_key_file.read()
        if SECRET_KEY == '':
            raise FileNotFoundError
except FileNotFoundError:
    with open('<PROJECT_NAME>/SECRET_KEY', 'w') as secret_key_file:
        chars = ''.join([string.ascii_letters, string.digits, string.punctuation]).replace('\'', '').replace('"', '').replace('\\', '')
        SECRET_KEY = ''.join([random.SystemRandom().choice(chars) for i in range(50)])
        secret_key_file.write(SECRET_KEY)
        secret_key_file.close()

Ensure that you replace <PROJECT_NAME> with the name of your project