Reset cache between tests

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from django.test import TestCase
from django.core.cache import cache
from django.conf import settings

class MyTests(TestCase):
    def tearDown(self):
        assert settings.CACHE_BACKEND == 'locmem:///'
        [cache.delete(key) for key in cache._cache.keys()]

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Comments

akaihola (on August 10, 2012):

I think you can just use cache.clear() instead of looping through the keys.

See also my blog post Changing Django cache backend between test cases and its comments for ideas about controlling caching in test suites.

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