Using Django models in external python script

Question

I was very confused today.

I was trying to use my django app models in my python script.

here is my approach

import os, sys

sys.path.append(         


        

Answer 1

The below script should work provided that the layout of your project (and the path to your settings file) looks like this:

/var/www/cloudloon/horizon/openstack_dashboard/settings.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, sys

sys.path.append("/var/www/cloudloon/horizon")
os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "openstack_dashboard.settings"
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

I believe the problem you're seeing is due to the arrangement of your project, or that you need to append another directory level to the sys.path call in the script.

Edit:

Looking at your github project, horizon and openstack_dashboard are on the same directory level. What you'd want to do is set your sys.path to one level higher:

sys.path.append("/var/www/cloudloon")