Django when to use teardown method

Question

According to the docs:

A TestCase, on the other hand, does not truncate tables and reload initial data at the beginning of a test. Instead, it encloses

Answer 1

I was working on a project that handled some file uploads, and i needed to delete the files that were created by the test and the tearDown method was very useful in that situation.

import shutil

#....
#....

    def tearDown(self):
        shutil.rmtree(settings.UPLOAD_ROOT)