I feel someone should proly explain "the right way" to do it, which (as far as I know) is something like what the first few results on that list do. Have a settings.example.py or something in the git, then instruct the user to copy it to settings.py and fill in the approiate values.

For example:

https://github.com/dansackett/bucketlist/blob/d5eaf407d931ea...