import sys from django.conf import settings from django.core.urlresolvers import clear_url_caches, resolve class UrlResetMixin(object): """Mixin to reset urls.py before and after a test Django memoizes the function that reads the urls module (whatever module urlconf names). The module itself is also stored by python in sys.modules. To fully reload it, we need to reload the python module, and also clear django's cache of the parsed urls. However, the order in which we do this doesn't matter, because neither one will get reloaded until the next request Doing this is expensive, so it should only be added to tests that modify settings that affect the contents of urls.py """ def _reset_urls(self, urlconf=None): if urlconf is None: urlconf = settings.ROOT_URLCONF if urlconf in sys.modules: reload(sys.modules[urlconf]) clear_url_caches() # Resolve a URL so that the new urlconf gets loaded resolve('/') def setUp(self): """Reset django default urlconf before tests and after tests""" super(UrlResetMixin, self).setUp() self._reset_urls() self.addCleanup(self._reset_urls)