The selected answer is a massive hack. :)
A less-massive hack would be to create your own TestSuiteRunner subclass and change a setting or do whatever else you need to for the rest of your application. You specify the test runner in your settings:
TEST_RUNNER = 'your.project.MyTestSuiteRunner'
In general, you don't want to do this, but it works if you absolutely need it.
from django.conf import settings
from django.test.simple import DjangoTestSuiteRunner
class MyTestSuiteRunner(DjangoTestSuiteRunner):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
settings.IM_IN_TEST_MODE = True
super(MyTestSuiteRunner, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
NOTE: As of Django 1.8, DjangoTestSuiteRunner
has been deprecated.
You should use DiscoverRunner
instead:
from django.conf import settings
from django.test.runner import DiscoverRunner
class MyTestSuiteRunner(DiscoverRunner):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
settings.IM_IN_TEST_MODE = True
super(MyTestSuiteRunner, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)