FYI, I was finally able to resolve this. I had an assumption that
TestCase's began with a freshly created database between TestCase classes.
I asserted this in _fixture_setup() and found that assumption to be false.
Upon further research I found a setUpClass() in another TestCase that
Thanks, Tim.
Unfortunately I can't move past Django 1.7 yet -- dependencies. I've been
marching my way up one revision at a time hopefully up to 1.9 as a way to
keep the scope of what breaks under control as I move through each major
revision and stabilize my project. Then I attack
I'm in the middle of trying to track down a problem with loading fixtures
during unit tests -- I'm hesitant to call it a bug in Django 1.7, but the
inconsistent behavior is really stumping me.
Essentially I've made a fixture via
manage dumpdata --indent=3 -e sessions -e admin -e