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17011	Recursion error in TestCase class decorated by override_settings when overriding method on parent class and calling parent method	Jim Dalton	nobody	"A bit hard to explain but a fairly straightforward bug. Basically, if you have a sub class of TestCase and then a sub class of that sub class that's decorated by @override_settings at the class level, and you override a method and then call the parent method, you get a recursion error.

Kind of easier to demonstrate in code:


{{{
from django.test import TestCase
from django.test.utils import override_settings

class FooTests(TestCase):
  def setUp(self):
    # do some stuff
    pass

@override_settings(FOO='bar')
class SubFooTests(TestCase):
  def setUp(self):
    # recursion error!
    super(SubFooTests, self).setUp()
}}}

I have a patch with a regression test that formally demonstrates this behavior but have not investigated it yet. It's possible it's related to #16224, but I don't really know.
"	Bug	closed	Testing framework	dev	Release blocker	fixed		jim.dalton@…	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0