how to avoid django-memoize during test

avoid_memoize_during_test.py

# Supposing you're using the django-memoize package, you could have the
# following view memoized:

# file: your_module/views.py
# ...
@memoize(timeout=60)
def very_heavy_view(request):
    time_consuming_function()
    # ...
# ...
    
# But during the tests you don't want to wait a minute to execute, and
# usually you mock the external functions like `time_consuming_function()`

# So here it is, put this in your settings.py

# file: your_app/settings.py
# ...
IS_TESTING = lambda: len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'test'
# ...

# Then change the memoize decorator as follows
# file: your_module/views.py
# ...
from django.conf import settings
# ...
@memoize(timeout=60, unless=settings.IS_TESTING)
def very_heavy_view(request):
    time_consuming_function()
    # ...
# ...

Thanks Tobia for the like #19
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4088253/django-how-to-detect-test-environment