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

I use:

DEV_SERVERS = [
    'mymachine.local',
]

DEVELOPMENT = platform.node() in DEV_SERVERS

which requires paying attention to what is returned by .node() on your machines. It's important that the default be non-development so that you don't accidentally expose sensitive development information.

You could also look into more complicated ways of uniquely identifying computers.