Merge pull request #5532 from edx/adam/disable-pycontracts-on-startup

disable pycontracts except in development environments (PLAT-122)

manage.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 import importlib
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
+import contracts
 
 def parse_args():
     """Parse edx specific arguments to manage.py"""
@@ -41,6 +42,11 @@ def parse_args():
         choices=['lms', 'lms-xml', 'lms-preview'],
         default='lms',
         help='Which service variant to run, when using the aws environment')
+    lms.add_argument(
+        '--contracts',
+        action='store_true',
+        default=False,
+        help='Turn on pycontracts for local development')
     lms.set_defaults(
         help_string=lms.format_help(),
         settings_base='lms/envs',
@@ -59,6 +65,11 @@ def parse_args():
         help="Which django settings module to use under cms.envs. If not provided, the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE "
              "environment variable will be used if it is set, otherwise it will default to cms.envs.dev")
     cms.add_argument('-h', '--help', action='store_true', help='show this help message and exit')
+    cms.add_argument(
+        '--contracts',
+        action='store_true',
+        default=False,
+        help='Turn on pycontracts for local development')
     cms.set_defaults(
         help_string=cms.format_help(),
         settings_base='cms/envs',
@@ -86,6 +97,11 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     os.environ.setdefault("SERVICE_VARIANT", edx_args.service_variant)
 
+    enable_contracts = os.environ.get('ENABLE_CONTRACTS', False)
+    # can override with '--contracts' argument
+    if not enable_contracts and not edx_args.contracts:
+        contracts.disable_all()
+
     if edx_args.help:
         print "Django:"
         # This will trigger django-admin.py to print out its help