Python

Having a nullable many-to-many field doesn't do anything. The declaration of a ManyToManyField causes the creation of an intermediate table to hold the relationship. Each relation between the two tables is an entry in this new table. By definition, having no relations between two tables would mean no entries in this table. There's no use of null. Consider removing null=True from this property.

In order to conform to the object model, classes that define their own equality method should also define their own hash method, or be unhashable. If the hash method is not defined then the hash of the super class is used. This is unlikely to result in the expected behavior. A class can be made unhashable by setting its __hash__ attribute to None.

os.environ is not a dict but proxy object. The use of copy.copy(os.environ) will make a shallow copy of os.environ therefore, any changes made in the copy would be reflected in os.environ as well. It is recommended to use os.environ.copy() instead.

The module is importing itself. This is not recommended.

Debuggers should only be used temporarily and locally. It is highly recommended not to leave debug statements in checked-in code.