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| author | Henk Vos <henk.vos@me.com> | 2014-02-22 18:06:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2014-02-25 10:48:51 -0500 |
| commit | 985d0865a3cfb5850f926dfd9742fa7a9ca88bdc (patch) | |
| tree | f9e21bb3bb3b13ce8cc4f11239d52c280f059e2a /docs/topics/testing | |
| parent | 3a5da7a11c009e46a50a8c4f432deb890151740a (diff) | |
[1.6.x] Fixed #22071 -- Added a warning regarding override_settings and aliasing.
Thanks EvilDMP for the suggestion.
Backport of e65c0ccac0 from master
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/testing/tools.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt index ae291627d4..1f59943ade 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt @@ -1104,6 +1104,10 @@ The decorator can also be applied to test case classes:: the original ``LoginTestCase`` is still equally affected by the decorator. + Finally, avoid aliasing your settings as module-level constants as + ``override_settings()`` won't work on such values since they are + only evaluated the first time the module is imported. + You can also simulate the absence of a setting by deleting it after settings have been overriden, like this:: |