Django debug should be optional

[tpmullan]

pytest-django/pytest_django/plugin.py

Line 473 in 162263f

dj_settings.DEBUG = False

Currently django is hard codded to not allow debug. This means that static files are not served, even when debug is set as true. So in my tests when loading from staticfiles_storage the files are not found without a collect static. What is the expected way to deal with this?

[S-Mann]

I get having a default flag for DEBUG = False. But if in user's settings they explicitly specify DEBUG = True. I don't think the library should override it.

[countermeasure]

I prefer to run tests with DEBUG set to True, and I can't seem to do that with pytest-django.

Am I missing something, or if I'm not, is there a workaround?

The benefit of doing this is that when a test fails because of an unhandled exception, the resulting screenshot contains debugging information.

[bluetech]

Duplicate of #180.

This is done to match Django's behavior: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/overview/#other-test-conditions

But seems like Django has since added a --debug-mode flag to enable DEBUG. So we can probably do the same. I'll look into it now.

[bluetech]

PR in #888 if you want to test it!