On some occasions, there might be a need to generate a random Secret key for your Django project. The easiest option could be starting a django shell and running the below command - from django.core.management. utils import get_random_secret_key get_random_secret_key () However, this may not be safe to use in a production environment. A better option is to use a defined a set of allowed characters including upper case letters and then use Django to generate a long key. Here is an example of it - a. Define a list of allowed characters lower_plus_numbers = ( list ( chr (o) for o in range ( 0x61 , 0x7B )) + list ( chr (o) for o in range ( 0x30 , 0x3A ))) punctuation = list ( '!@#$%^&*(-_=+)' ) upper_alpha = list ( chr (o) for o in range ( 0x41 , 0x5B )) b. Generate Secret Key from django.utils.crypto import get_random_string key_length = 60 get_random_string( key_length, allowed_chars=lower_plus_numbers + punctuation + upper_alpha, ) c