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

Inspired by Aryeh's answer, the trick I devised for my own use is to just look for the name of my management script in sys.argv[0]:

USING_DEV_SERVER = "pulpdist/manage_site.py" in sys.argv[0]

(My use case is to automatically enable Django native authentication when running the test server - when running under Apache, even on development servers, all authentication for my current project is handled via Kerberos)