Unit tests in pycharm are running twice

Question

I need to generate a test report using HTMLTestRunner ,for that code (which is placed at the end of the file) is:

suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(TestLoginPages)

outfile = open("/home/xxx/xxx/xxxx/report.html", "w")
runner = HTMLTestRunner.HTMLTestRunner(
    stream=outfile,
    title='Test Report',
    description='Test report for the application')
runner.run(suite)

Then I run the test cases from pycharm ,all the tests are running twice. I have tried to 'Edit Configurations' in the 'Run' menu where I delete the 'unittest in my_file_name' configuration, but issue remains same

Answer 1

Make sure your manage.py file contains

if __name__ == "__main__":
    ...
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

PyCharm tries to make import of manage.py file to be sure there are no import errors. If your manage.py file does not contain name == "main" validation, then tests run on import stage as if they were launched from the bash and then PyCharm runs them directly once more.