Commit 78af6f13 authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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[1.6.x] Added a warning about direct settings manipulation in tests. 

Thanks Thomas Chaumeny for the initial patch.

Backport of 3f651b3e from master
parent 4a30e0ae

docs/topics/testing/tools.txt

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Overriding settings

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.. warning::



    Use the functions below to temporarily alter the value of settings in tests.

    Don't manipulate ``django.conf.settings`` directly as Django won't restore

    the original values after such manipulations.



.. method:: SimpleTestCase.settings()



For testing purposes it's often useful to change a setting temporarily and