django DEBUG=False still runs in debug mode

Question

I\'m having issues setting my DEBUG = False on my deployed server (on heroku).

I don\'t believe I\'ve seen this before, but setting debug to false is not

Answer 1

If somebody is using python-decouple for env variables and having trouble with DEBUG you have to use this line to retrieve booleans:

from decouple import config
DEBUG = config('DEBUG', default=False, cast=bool)