Python pyramid settings not available in registry

As per the docs, here it is possible to access the settings in the .ini files for use throughout the application, even if there is no access to the request object. I would find this very useful because I want to specify different database lines in .ini and be able to access them not only in __init__

, but also from other applications. However, whenever and wherever I try it, the value settings

is None

. What for? (Pyramid v1.5.7)

registry = pyramid.threadlocal.get_current_registry()
settings = registry.settings
debug_frobnosticator = settings['debug_frobnosticator']

      

        
        
        
      

    

This is how the application is initialized:

from pyramid.config import Configurator
from pyramid.authentication import AuthTktAuthenticationPolicy
from pyramid.authorization import ACLAuthorizationPolicy
from pyramid.security import authenticated_userid
from bang.model import RootFactory, groupFinder
from pyramid.renderers import JSON
import json
from datetime import datetime, date
from bson.objectid import ObjectId
from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
from apscheduler.jobstores.mongodb import MongoDBJobStore
from pytz import utc
import platform
from bang.classes import *  # the db string is required in this module
import logging
from datetime import timedelta

# main app config
def main(global_config, **settings):
    authn_policy = AuthTktAuthenticationPolicy(
        secret='xxxxxx',
        callback=groupFinder,
        hashalg='sha512',
        include_ip=True,
        timeout=36000)
    authz_policy = ACLAuthorizationPolicy()
    config = Configurator(
        settings=settings,
        root_factory=RootFactory)
    config.set_authentication_policy(authn_policy)
    config.set_authorization_policy(authz_policy)



    logging.getLogger("apscheduler.scheduler").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
    logging.getLogger("apscheduler.executors.default").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
    logging.getLogger("requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool").setLevel(logging.ERROR)

    ### first use of db from bang.classes here
    # set house_id auto_inc to the highest current house_id
    new_int = Asset().find().sort('house_id_int', -1)[0].house_id_int
    Asset()._database['Sequences'].find_and_modify({'_id': 'house_id_int'}, {'$set': {'seq': new_int}}, upsert=True)

    # set house_id auto_inc to the highest current house_id
    new_int = Contract().find().sort('code_int', -1)[0].code_int
    Contract()._database['Sequences'].find_and_modify({'_id': 'code_int'}, {'$set': {'seq': new_int}}, upsert=True)

    def get_user(request):
        user = User().find_one({'_id': ObjectId(authenticated_userid(request))}, fields={'password': False})
        return {'_id': user._id, 'defaults': user.defaults, 'full_name': user.full_name, 'first_name': user.first_name,
            'last_name': user.last_name, 'login_count': user.login_count, 'permissions': user.permissions}

    # if this Pyramid instance is an Agent host, then start a scheduler
    agent = Agent().find_one({'host_name': platform.node()})
    if agent:

        # created background scheduler
        scheduler = BackgroundScheduler(
            jobstores={
            'mongo': MongoDBJobStore(client=cn, database='foobar', collection='ScheduledJobs_%s' % agent.host_name, timezone=utc,
                                     job_defaults={'coalesce': True, 'misfire_grace_time': 86400})})
        log.info('created scheduler for agent_host %s' % agent.host_name)
        # start the scheduler
        scheduler.start()

        def get_scheduler(request):
            return scheduler
        config.add_request_method(get_scheduler, 'scheduler', reify=True)

    for agent in Agent().find({'host_name': platform.node()}):
        # add a job to scan the agent
        log.info('added scan schedule for %s on %s' % (agent.name, agent.host_name))
        scheduler.add_job(agent_scan, trigger='interval', args=[str(agent._id)], jobstore='mongo',
                      id='%s_scan' % agent._id, seconds=agent.scan_cycle, replace_existing=True)
        # add a job to process the agent joblist
        log.info('added jobs schedule for %s on %s' % (agent.name, agent.host_name))
        scheduler.add_job(agent_jobs, trigger='interval', args=[str(agent._id)], jobstore='mongo',
                      id='%s_jobs' % agent._id, seconds=10, start_date=datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(seconds=60), replace_existing=True)

    # add the authenticated user to each request
    config.add_request_method(get_user, 'user', reify=True)

    # custom json adapters
    custom_json = JSON()

    def haystack_obj_adapter(obj, request):
        return obj.json

    config.add_renderer('json', custom_json)

    # routes for standard static images
    config.add_route('apple-touch', '/apple-touch-icon.png')
    # etc

    # routes
    config.add_route('remote.files', '/remote/files/{method}')
    # etc

    config.add_static_view('/', 'static', cache_max_age=0)

    config.scan()

    return config.make_wsgi_app()


TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'