Determine if Django is running under the development server

Question

Is there a way to determine if Django is running on localhost and setting the DEBUG variable in settings.py accordingly.

So that if I run the s

Answer 1

This is not the best approach, but it works :)
For something better you can use django-configurations

import sys    
# Determine if in Production or Development
if (len(sys.argv) >= 2 and sys.argv[1] == 'runserver'):
    DEBUG = True 
    #...       
else:
    DEBUG = False
    #...