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

Could not have a permalink to this accepted and related answer to your question. So, just pasting it:-

server = request.META.get('wsgi.file_wrapper', None)
if server is not None and server.__module__ == 'django.core.servers.basehttp':
    print 'inside dev'

Of course, wsgi.file_wrapper might be set on META, and have a class from a module named django.core.servers.basehttp by extreme coincidence on another server environment, but I hope this will have you covered.

PS: Please refer to How can I tell whether my Django application is running on development server or not? for more details