Unable to build documentation for Django project

Hi there.
I am trying to build the documentation for our package.
It fails with either opening the development server or by trying to build the documention.

I am doing pdoc --http : <package> --config show_source_code=False
or
pdoc --html --config show_source_code=False <package>/

Both result in this traceback. Does Pdoc not work with Django? I'm sure it did work last time I had tried to generate documentation for my Django project.

/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdoc/cli.py:532: UserWarning: Couldn't read PEP-224 variable docstrings from <Module 'module'>: could not get source code
  modules = [pdoc.Module(module, docfilter=docfilter,
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdoc/__init__.py", line 225, in import_module
    module = importlib.import_module(module_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 790, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 108, in __new__
    app_config = apps.get_containing_app_config(module)
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 252, in get_containing_app_config
    self.check_apps_ready()
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 134, in check_apps_ready
    settings.INSTALLED_APPS
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 83, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 64, in _setup
    raise ImproperlyConfigured(
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting INSTALLED_APPS, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/bin/pdoc", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('pdoc3==0.9.2', 'console_scripts', 'pdoc')())
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdoc/cli.py", line 532, in main
    modules = [pdoc.Module(module, docfilter=docfilter,
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdoc/cli.py", line 532, in <listcomp>
    modules = [pdoc.Module(module, docfilter=docfilter,
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdoc/__init__.py", line 708, in __init__
    m = Module(import_module(fullname),
  File "/home/jacob/.virtualenvs/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdoc/__init__.py", line 227, in import_module
    raise ImportError('Error importing {!r}: {}: {}'
ImportError: Error importing 'module': ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting INSTALLED_APPS, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

Reproduce the two pdoc commands from the issue with a Django project and inspect pdoc/cli.py and pdoc/init.py, especially import_module. Determine how Django settings affect module importing and documentation generation. Done means the failure is fixed or the supported configuration and limitation are clearly established.