Standalone

Standalone lets you access Django shell from your Python modules or to run your django module as a standalone module with access to Django shell.

Installation

pip install standalone

Configuration

1. Use Django shell of the current project.

Configuration for accessing the shell of project mysite with in a module in same Django project.

# mysite.polls.views.py

import standalone
standalone.run('mysite.settings')

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
User.objects.all() # Users from project mysite

2. Use Django shell of another project.

Configuration for accessing the Django shell of a secondary project mysite2 with in a module in project mysite.

Provide settings module of the secondary project along with the abosolute path of the Django project.

# mysite.polls.views.py

import standalone
standalone.run('mysite2.settings', path='/home/user/mysite2/')

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
User.objects.all()  # Users from project mysite2

Note

To prevent the code from exeuting while importing the modules, always move your expensive code to the following block.

import standalone
standalone.run('mysite.settings',)

# access django project
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
def get_users():
   return User.objects.all()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    get_users()

License

Apache License 2.0