Using a settings file other than settings.py in Django -

I want to use a different settings file in django - specifically settings_prod- - whenever I have a syncdb To - settings = settings_prod , it complains:

  python2.6 manage.py syncdb --settings = settings_prod Error: File 'settings.py' can not be found It seems that you have customized things in a directory with 'Manage.py'. To run django-admin.py, it must pass its settings module (if the file's Etats is actually present, so it is by no means generating import error.)   
 I also try to set the environment variable  DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = settings_prod  Is the end of  
 Edit: I have also set environment variables in my wsgi file, even to the end:  
  import os import sys from django.core .handlers.wsgi Import WSGIHandler os.environ ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'project.settings_prod' application = WSGIHandler ()   
 Suggestions?   
 
 
 I know what you do with  manage.py  , You are taking that error because a relative imports of  manage.py   settings :  
  Try: Import Settings # Assumed to be in the same directory.   
  
 
 Note that this option is unnecessary in manage.py, because it uses settings.py by default from the current project.   
 You should try  django-admin.py syncdb --settings = mysettings  instead