How can I tell whether my Django application is running on development server or not?

Question

How can I be certain that my application is running on development server or not? I suppose I could check value of settings.DEBUG and assume if DEBUG

Answer 1

If you want to switch your settings files automatically dependent on the runtime environment you could just use something that differs in environ, e.g.

from os import environ
if environ.get('_', ''): 
    print "This is dev - not Apache mod_wsgi"