How can I test whether Django is running in debug mode?

Question

My settings file has:

DEBUG = True

The obvious method:

if DEBUG:
    print 'debug'

Does not seem to work:

global name 'DEBUG' is not defined

You need to go via `settings.DEBUG` – Henrik Andersson May 20 '13 at 11:23 — Henrik Andersson, May 20 '13 at 11:23

score 34 · Accepted Answer · edited May 28 '20 at 12:39

34

As mentioned in the comment, you need to do:

from django.conf import settings

print(settings.DEBUG)

edited May 28 '20 at 12:39

DBedrenko

answered May 20 '13 at 11:35

zsquare

I am new to django. Can You please explain where I can write this to check my settings.I tried in Python console but it is not giving the right value back. – Lalit Sharma May 08 '20 at 18:08
@LalitSharma In `python manage.py shell` of your Django `manage.py` – DBedrenko May 28 '20 at 12:40
@DBedrenko thank you, that worked just fine. I was adding it in view and returning the value as api result. That was a mess. – Lalit Sharma May 29 '20 at 18:31

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