What's the difference between `from django.conf import settings` and `import settings` in a Django project

Question

I\'m reading up that most people do from django.conf import settings but I don\'t undertstand the difference to simply doing import settings in a djang

Answer 1

from django.conf import settings is better option.

I use different settings files for the same django project (one for "live", one for "dev"), the first one will select the one being executed.