Override a Django setting during a test with a context processor

settings_override.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

'''
Borrowed from Django CMS. This is too useful to live without
'''
from django.conf import settings

class NULL:
    pass

class SettingsOverride(object):
    """
    Overrides Django settings within a context and resets them to their inital
    values on exit.

    Example:

        with SettingsOverride(DEBUG=True):
            # do something
    """

    def __init__(self, **overrides):
        self.overrides = overrides

    def __enter__(self):
        self.old = {}
        for key, value in self.overrides.items():
            self.old[key] = getattr(settings, key, NULL)
            setattr(settings, key, value)

    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        for key, value in self.old.items():
            if value is not NULL:
                setattr(settings, key, value)
            else:
                delattr(settings,key) # do not pollute the context!