Detect django testing mode

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Herberth Amaral picture Herberth Amaral · Aug 5, 2011 · Viewed 16.9k times · Source

I'm writing a reusable django app and I need to ensure that its models are only sync'ed when the app is in test mode. I've tried to use a custom DjangoTestRunner, but I found no examples of how to do that (the documentation only shows how to define a custom test runner).

So, does anybody have an idea of how to do it?

EDIT

Here's how I'm doing it:

#in settings.py
import sys
TEST = 'test' in sys.argv

Hope it helps.

Answer

jjmaestro picture jjmaestro · Jul 6, 2012

I think the answer provided here https://stackoverflow.com/a/7651002/465673 is a much cleaner way of doing it:

Put this in your settings.py:

import sys

TESTING = sys.argv[1:2] == ['test']

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