Added convenient runtest.py, thanks Carl Meyer and Alex Gaynor.

runtests.py

+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import sys
+
+from os.path import dirname, abspath
+
+from django.conf import settings
+
+if not settings.configured:
+    settings.configure(
+        DATABASE_ENGINE='sqlite3',
+        INSTALLED_APPS=[
+            'tests.testapp',
+        ]
+    )
+
+from django.test.simple import run_tests
+
+
+def runtests(*test_args):
+    if not test_args:
+        test_args = ['testapp']
+    parent = dirname(abspath(__file__))
+    sys.path.insert(0, parent)
+    failures = run_tests(test_args, verbosity=1, interactive=True)
+    sys.exit(failures)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    runtests(*sys.argv[1:])
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tests/settings.py

 DEBUG = True
 
-ROOT_URLCONF = 'urls'
-
 DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'
-DATABASE_NAME = 'redis_cache.db'
- 
+
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
-    'testapp',
+    'tests.testapp',
 ]

tests/testapp/tests.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import time
 import unittest
 
 from django.core.cache import get_cache
-from testapp.models import Poll, expensive_calculation
+from models import Poll, expensive_calculation
 
 # functions/classes for complex data type tests
 def f():
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class C:
 class RedisCacheTests(unittest.TestCase):
     """
     A common set of tests derived from Django's own cache tests
-    
+
     """
     def setUp(self):
         # use DB 16 for testing and hope there isn't any important data :->