Temporarily disable django caching

pause_django_caching.py

import contextlib
from typing import ContextManager

from django.core import cache
from django.core.cache.backends.dummy import DummyCache


@contextlib.contextmanager
def disable_caches(*aliases: str) -> ContextManager[tuple[str, ...]]:
    """Temporarily disable django caching backends. By default, all connected
    caching backends are disabled.
    
    This is a Django 3+ compatible variant of: 
    https://gist.github.com/kaedroho/cefd778ff5ea85166ded1ef817c62c6d
    """

    # noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences,PyProtectedMember
    cache_settings, cons = cache.caches.settings, cache.caches._connections

    aliases = list(aliases or cache_settings)
    caches_old = {
        k: cache.caches[k] for k in aliases
        if hasattr(cons, k) and not isinstance(cache.caches[k], DummyCache)
    }

        for alias in caches_old:
        params = cache_settings[alias].copy()
        params.pop('BACKEND')
        location = params.pop('LOCATION', '')

        cache_tmp = DummyCache(location, params)
        setattr(cons, alias, cache_tmp)

    try:
        yield tuple(caches_old)

    finally:
        for alias, cache_old in caches_old.items():
            setattr(cons, alias, cache_old)