Django manage.py scripts

Write your own commands

Creating your custom commands

1. Create a file called: app_name/management/commands/create_admin_superuser.py
2. Fill in the blanks

Example

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand

class Command(BaseCommand):
    help = """ help string """

    def add_arguments(self, parser):
        parser.add_argument("email", type=str)
        parser.add_argument("password", type=str)

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        # do stuff
        self.stdout.write("Created an admin superuser")

Python Shell

python manage.py shell

import django
django.setup()
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
# other imports

manage.py shell vs python console

• manage.py shell sets the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULEwhich lets it know about the settings.py

(django_extensions has a shell_plus)

django_extensions

video

adds a bunch of nice helpers to ./manage.py

• graph_models
  • graphs your models
• runserver_plus
  • django error page with a Python terminal to see the info
• runscript
  • run a python file that sets up django (import django, django.setup())
  • nice for scripts that are run with cron
• shell_plus
  • django shell that loads all of your models
• print_user_for_session <session_ID>
  • get all of the session info for a user

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Last update: 2023-04-24