id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
23421	dict get for TEST_SERIALIZE in django.test.runner.setup_databases() always return True	Guido Kollerie	Tim Graham	"Given the following in `settings.py`:

{{{
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        # ....
        'TEST_SERIALIZE': False,
        }
}
}}}

The call `serialize=connection.settings_dict.get(""TEST_SERIALIZE"", True)` on line 299 in `django.test.runner.setup_databases` will always be set to True as `TEST_SERIALIZE` is somewhere transformed into:

{{{
settings_dict = { 
    'TEST': {
        'SERIALIZE`: True,
        # ...
    },
    # ...
}
}}} 

Hence the key lookup always fails, and `get()` will use the supplied default value of `True`. A possible fix will be to rewrite that call to something like:

{{{
serialize=connection.settings_dict[""TEST""].get(""SERIALIZE"", True)
}}}"	Bug	closed	Testing framework	1.7	Release blocker	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0