Question

I’ve got a Django project, to which I added the South app about halfway through to make database migrations easier.

I use the Django unit test framework in a couple of limited places in the project, meaning I don’t run the tests regularly. I recently wrote some new tests for a new part of the code, and attempted to run them. I got the following error:

django.db.utils.DatabaseError: no such table: auth_permission

The traceback mentioned some South files (e.g. /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/south/management/commands/test.py). Could South be fouling up the test runner?

Answer 1

Possibly — doubtless I’ve done something wrong somewhere, but South’s documentation mentions possible issues here:

• http://south.aeracode.org/docs/unittests.html

I added SOUTH_TESTS_MIGRATE = False to my settings.py file, and my tests ran fine again.

However, my tests don’t currently involve the database, so I might have to revisit this.