How to drop all tables from the database with manage.py CLI in Django?

Question

How can I drop all tables from a database using manage.py and command line? Is there any way to do that executing manage.py with appropriate parameters so I can execute it f

Answer 1

If you're using the South package to handle database migrations (highly recommended), then you could just use the ./manage.py migrate appname zero command.

Otherwise, I'd recommend the ./manage.py dbshell command, piping in SQL commands on standard input.