mongoengine connect() in settings.py testing problem

Question

I want to be able to do conditional connect() based on either I started django in testing mode or not.

in my settings.py I use mongoengine connect() method to connect to

Answer 1

I'm not sure it's completely foolproof, but I use the fact that in a test, you will have probably started it from the command line with ./manage.py test, so 'test' is one of the command-line args. So this works:

import sys
if 'test' not in sys.argv:
    mongodb.connect()