How can I tell whether my Django application is running on development server or not?

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Imran picture Imran · Aug 18, 2009 · Viewed 22.6k times · Source

How can I be certain that my application is running on development server or not? I suppose I could check value of settings.DEBUG and assume if DEBUG is True then it's running on development server, but I'd prefer to know for sure than relying on convention.

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Aryeh Leib Taurog picture Aryeh Leib Taurog · Nov 25, 2010

I put the following in my settings.py to distinguish between the standard dev server and production:

import sys
RUNNING_DEVSERVER = (len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'runserver')

This also relies on convention, however.

(Amended per Daniel Magnusson's comment)

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