Running pytest on Docker has DEBUG=False, even with intervention

[Andrew-Chen-Wang]

What happened?

When testing with the command docker-compose -f local.yml run --rm django pytest, my program asserted that DEBUG was False. From config.settings.base, it makes sense why.

However, if you add DEBUG=True above and below the import in config.settings.test, the DEBUG is still False.

What should've happened instead?

settings.DEBUG should've been False.

Steps to reproduce

Create a view or something that raises an error if debug is False. In config.settings.test, add DEBUG=True above and below the import statement, but the bottom is most important. Finally, check DEBUG with a test.

[browniebroke]

This is set by pytest-django here and it's apparently the same thing in Django.

There was an issue opened a while ago to change that, a first PR which was merged, then revered here. There is now an open PR for it.

I'll close this, feel free to get in touch with pytest-django to get the above PR merged.

[Andrew-Chen-Wang]

Can’t believe it was a pytest django problem. Thank you!