diff --git a/pelican/tests/test_importedsettings.py b/pelican/tests/test_importedsettings.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function
+import os
+import unittest
+import sys
+import locale
+
+from pelican.utils.importlib import import_module
+from pelican.settings import read_settings
+from pelican.settings.base import _DEFAULT_CONFIG
+
+# runtest with:
+# cd ~/pelican/pelican/tests && python -m unittest discover . 'test_importeds*' && cd -
+class TestImportLib(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '../..')
+        sys.path.append(os.path.abspath(path))
+
+
+    def test_importedsettings(self):
+        self.settings = read_settings(path=None, override={
+            'LOCALE': locale.normalize('en_US'),
+            'THEME': '/tmp/theme'# You might want tho change this...
+            })
+        from pelican.settings import conf
+        for key in _DEFAULT_CONFIG.keys():
+            assert hasattr(conf, key)
+