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

You could check request.META["SERVER_SOFTWARE"] value:

dev_servers = ["WSGIServer", "Werkzeug"]
if any(server in request.META["SERVER_SOFTWARE"] for server in dev_servers):
    print("is local")