manage.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
import environ

ENV_DIR = environ.Path(__file__) - 1

env = environ.Env()

READ_DOT_ENV_FILE = env.bool('DJANGO_READ_DOT_ENV_FILE', default=True)

if READ_DOT_ENV_FILE:
    # Operating System Environment variables have precedence over variables defined in the .env file,
    # that is to say variables from the .env files will only be used if not defined
    # as environment variables.
    env_file = str(ENV_DIR.path('.env'))
    env.read_env(env_file)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", env("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", default="config.production"))

    try:
        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
    except ImportError:
        # The above import may fail for some other reason. Ensure that the
        # issue is really that Django is missing to avoid masking other
        # exceptions on Python 2.
        try:
            import django  # noqa
        except ImportError:
            raise ImportError(
                "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
                "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
                "forget to activate a virtual environment?"
            )
        raise

        # This allows easy placement of apps within the interior
        # scholars directory.
    current_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    sys.path.append(os.path.join(current_path, 'scholars'))

    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)