Why am I getting this error in Django?

Question

I have a script that imports a models.py from an app, but it will not import! I don\'t believe I am supposed to manually create an \"export DJANGO...\" environment variable...I\

Answer 1

One alternative to messing about with the environment is to just write your script as a Django custom management command, which takes care of setting up the environment for you (along with other things like option parsing, etc).