Django: ImproperlyConfigured: The SECRET_KEY setting must not be empty

I had the same error and it turned out to be a circular dependency between a module or class loaded by the settings and the settings module itself. In my case it was a middleware class which was named in the settings which itself tried to load the settings.

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