Unable to get a setting from settings file in django

From the Django docs on creating your own settings states:

Setting names are in all uppercase.

Try renaming the setting to GI.

The project must be added on the PYTHONPATH and the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE has to be defined.Please refer to the commands mentioned below.

export PYTHONPATH=PATH_OF_PROJECTexport DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings

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