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

All you need is importable settings and properly set python path. In the most raw form this can be done by setting up appropriate environment variables, like:

$ DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=myproject.settings PYTHONPATH=$HOME/djangoprojects python myscript.py

There are other ways, like calling settings.configure() and already mentioned setup_environ() described by James Bennett in some blog post.