django-easysettings 1.1

Isolating Settings when Testing

You can force your app’s tests to use the default project settings rather than any value in the project’s settings configuration module.

Just set settings.isolated = True.

For example, you could use a base test class to do this:

class BaseTest(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        """
        Isolate all application specific settings.
        """
        output = super(BaseTest, self).setUp()
        settings.isolated = True
        return output

    def tearDown(self):
        """
        Restore settings to their original state.
        """
        settings.isolated = False
        settings.revert()
        return super(BaseTest, self).tearDown()

As also shown in the example above, you can revert any changes made by calling settings.revert().