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Usage

A Settings object represents a dictionary of setting: value mapping that serves as configuration information for HttpRequest and MultiPartParser.

Settings dictionary

The following is the list of keys defined under the Key subclass.

Key	Default Value	Use
FILE_UPLOAD_DIR	file_uploads folder under the files package	Location where temp files from a multipart/form-data are stored.
MAX_HEADER_SIZE	1024 bytes	Maximum size of a multipart data header.
FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY	30 MB	Maximum size of file to be held in memory for a single file before it is stored on disk,
DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY	5 MB	Maximum size of raw request body to be held in memory before RequestDataTooBig is raised.
DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_FIELDS	4096	Maximum number of GET or POST parameters allowed before TooManyFieldsSent is raised.
DEFAULT_CHARSET	ISO-8859-1	Charset for an HTTP request

Methods

__init__(settings_dict=None, check_presence=False)	Create a new Settings object using the config dictionary settings_dict. When this is None, the default values are used.check_presense when true creates the directory provided for key FILE_UPLOAD_DIR and checks write permissions.
default(check_presence=False)	this class method returns a Settings object with the default values.check_presence when true creates the default directory and checks write permissions.