Test DB Connection

I've go some python modules which automatically connect to the database then they are loaded beacuse they  have an __init__.py with

from django.core.management import setup_environ

import passion.settings

def loadSettings():
    s = setup_environ(passion.settings)
    print s
       
# this should only be run from the workbox not on the server
loadSettings()

This works fine even when it can't connect.

But later if I do:

from passion.cg.models import *
users = User.objects.filter( username='julian')
print users

then I get

# OperationalError: (1044, "Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'djangostack'")
#  - [line 3]

So I need a way to test the connection before trying to use the django models.

I can just check for exceptions, but is there a better way?

Julian

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