How to execute a Python script from the Django shell

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I need to execute a Python script from the Django shell  I tried     manage py shell  lt  lt  my script py   But it didn t work  It was just waiting for me to write something

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You can just run the script with the DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE environment variable set  That s all it takes to set up Django-shell environment   This works in Django    1 4

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I m late for the party but I hope that my response will help someone  You can do this in your Python script   import sys  os sys path append   path to your django app   os environ  DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE      settings  from django conf import settings   the rest of your stuff goes here

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As other answers indicate but don t explicitly state  what you may actually need is not necessarily to execute your script from the Django shell  but to access your apps without using the Django shell   This differs a lot Django version to Django version  If you do not find your solution on this thread  answers here -- Django script to access model objects without using manage py shell -- or similar searches may help you   I had to begin my command py with  import os sys sys path append   path to myproject   os environ setdefault  DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE    config settings file   import django django setup    import project app models  do things with my models  yay   and then ran python3 my command py   Django 2 0 2

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The  lt  lt  part is wrong  use  lt  instead       manage py shell  lt  myscript py   You could also do       manage py shell      gt  gt  gt  execfile  myscript py     For python3 you would need to use   gt  gt  gt  exec open  myscript py   read

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came here with the same question as the OP  and I found my favourite answer precisely in the mistake within the question  which works also in Python 3     manage py shell  lt  lt EOF import my script my script main   EOF

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runscript from django-extensions  python manage py runscript scripty py   A sample script py to test it out   from django contrib auth models import User print User objects values      Mentioned at  http   django-extensions readthedocs io en latest command extensions html and documented at   python manage py runscript --help   There is a tutorial too   Tested on Django 1 9 6  django-extensions 1 6 7

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Try this if you are using virtual enviroment  -     python manage py shell   for using those command you must be inside virtual enviroment  for this use  -     workon vir env name   for example  -    dc dc-comp-4   mysite  workon jango  jango dc dc-comp-4   mysite  python manage py shell Python 2 7 6  default  Mar 22 2014  22 59 56    GCC 4 8 2  on linux2 Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information   InteractiveConsole   gt  gt  gt     Note  - Here mysite is my website name and jango is my virtual enviroment name

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If IPython is available  pip install ipython  then   manage py shell will automatically use it s shell and then you can use the magic command  run    run my script py

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For anyone using Django 1 7   it seems that simply import the settings module is not enough    After some digging  I found this Stack Overflow answer  https   stackoverflow com a 23241093  You now need to   import os  django os environ setdefault  DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE    myapp settings   django setup     now your code can go here      Without doing the above  I was getting a django core exceptions AppRegistryNoReady error   My script file is in the same directory as my django project  ie  in the same folder as manage py

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If you want to run in in BG even better   nohup echo  exec open  my script py   read       python manage py shell  amp    The output will be in nohup out

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You re not recommended to do that from the shell - and this is intended as you shouldn t really be executing random scripts from the django environment  but there are ways around this  see the other answers     If this is a script that you will be running multiple times  it s a good idea to set it up as a custom command ie       manage py my command   to do this create a file in a subdir of management and commands of your app  ie  my app        init   py     models py     management            init   py         commands                init   py             my command py     tests py     views py   and in this file define your custom command  ensuring that the name of the file is the name of the command you want to execute from   manage py   from django core management base import BaseCommand  class Command BaseCommand       def handle self    options             now do the things that you want with your models here

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AtulVarma provided a very useful comment under the not-working accepted answer   echo  import myscript    python manage py shell

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Late to the party  But this might be helpful for someone   All you need is your script and django-extensions installed   Just run the shell plus available in django extensions and import the script that you ve written   If your script is scpt py and it s inside a folder fol you can run the script as follows   python manage py shell plus   and just import your script inside the shell as follows    gt  gt  gt  from fol import scpt

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Other way it s execute this one   echo  execfile   path to myscript py      python manage py shell --settings config base   This is working on Python2 7 and Django1 9

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Note  this method has been deprecated for more recent versions of django     1 3   An alternative answer  you could add this to the top of my script py  from django core management import setup environ import settings setup environ settings    and execute my script py just with python in the directory where you have settings py but this is a bit hacky     python my script py

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django setup   does not seem to work    does not seem to be required either   this alone worked   import os  django  glob  sys  shelve os environ setdefault  DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE    myProject settings

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The django shell is the good way to execute a python module with the django environment  but it is not always easy and tiresome to import modules and execute functions manually especially without auto-completion  To resolve this  I created a small shell script  runscript sh  that allows you to take full advantage of the auto-completion and the log history of the Linux console   NB  Copy runscript sh to the root project and set the execute right  chmod  x   For example  I want to run python function named show a  b  c  in module do somethings py in myapp do folder   The standard django way  manage py shell    python3 manage py shell   gt  from myapp do folder import do somethings   gt  do somethings show  p1    p2     3 14159    With script  runscript sh      runscript sh myapp do folder do somethings py show p1 p2 3 14159   The script is not limited in number of arguments  However only arguments of primitive types are supported  int  float  string

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If you want to execute startup script  e g  import some django models to work with them interactively  and remain in django shell   PYTHONSTARTUP my script py python manage py shell

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Something I just found to be interesting is Django Scripts  which allows you to write scripts to be run with python manage py runscript foobar  More detailed information on implementation and scructure can be found here  http   django-extensions readthedocs org en latest index html

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if you have not a lot commands in your script use it   manage py shell --command  import django  print django   version       Django docs

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import os  sys  django os environ  DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE      settings  sys path insert 0  os getcwd     django setup

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