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Django is a pretty decent web framework for Python. Having brushed up on my Python programming I started to fall in love with doctests. I then went ahead and wrote about 100 lines of doctest for model in Django, then found all tests were failing because the database fixtures weren’t being loaded.

I couldn’t find out how to install fixtures inside doctests from the official documentation, I did however, come across what seemed like a web page written in Japanese. I had to skip the Japanese but figured out the code samples. Getting fixtures working with doctests in django is fairly simple – once you know how!

At the top of your doctest you will need the following two lines:
>>> from django.core import management
>>> management.call_command("loaddata", "project/fixtures/test.json", \
verbosity=0)

Replace project and test.json with your project name and fixture. Then continue with the doctests as per usual. After they are done put the following line at the end of the doctest:
>>> management.call_command("flush", verbosity=0, interactive=False)

That should be just about it