How can I tell whether my Django application is running on development server or not?

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How can I be certain that my application is running on development server or not? I suppose I could check value of settings.DEBUG and assume if DEBUG is True then it's running on development server, but I'd prefer to know for sure than relying on convention.

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You can determine whether you're running under WSGI (mod_wsgi, gunicorn, waitress, etc.) vs. manage.py (runserver, test, migrate, etc.) or anything else:

import sys
WSGI = 'django.core.wsgi' in sys.modules
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You could check request.META["SERVER_SOFTWARE"] value:

dev_servers = ["WSGIServer", "Werkzeug"]
if any(server in request.META["SERVER_SOFTWARE"] for server in dev_servers):
    print("is local")
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