django-disable-signals

A small utility package for temporarily disabling django signals

Installation

pip install django-signal-disabler

Usage

There are multiple ways to use this package:

1. As a function:

   disabler = signal_disabler.disable()
   obj = Model()
   
   disabler.disconnect_all()
   obj.save()  # will not call any signals
   disabler.reconnect_all()

2. As a context manager

   obj = Model()
   
   with signal_disabler.disable():
       obj.save()  # will not call any signals

3. As a decorator

   @signal_disabler.disable()  # note the parenthesis
   def save(obj)
       obj.save()
   
   save(Model())  # will not call any signals

Limitations

Not all signals are disabled. The default includes:

• pre_init, post_init
• pre_save, post_save
• pre_delete, post_delete
• pre_migrate, post_migrate

To disable other signals, one has to provide their list when instantiating disabler. Let's say we have a signal called email_sent. To disable it use:

email = Email()
with signal_disabler.disable(email_sent):
    email.send()