Running a Python script outside of Django

Question

I have a script which uses the Django ORM features, amongst other external libraries, that I want to run outside of Django (that is, executed from the command-line).

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Answer 1

The easiest way to do this is to set up your script as a manage.py subcommand. It's quite easy to do:

from django.core.management.base import NoArgsCommand, make_option

class Command(NoArgsCommand):

    help = "Whatever you want to print here"

    option_list = NoArgsCommand.option_list + (
        make_option('--verbose', action='store_true'),
    )

    def handle_noargs(self, **options):
        ... call your script here ...

Put this in a file, in any of your apps under management/commands/yourcommand.py (with empty __init__.py files in each) and now you can call your script with ./manage.py yourcommand.

If you're using Django 1.10 or greater NoArgsCommand has been deprecated. Use BaseCommand instead. https://stackoverflow.com/a/45172236/6022521