Use the (by default non existent) settings.py file directly when kicking off the application.
Use the default settings (default_settings.py) only when running the tests since we don't want to use the production settings (production db, etc.) while running the test suite.
settings.py
file directly when kicking off the application.default_settings.py
) only when running the tests since we don't want to use the production settings (production db, etc.) while running the test suite.