How to reload modules in django shell?

Question

I am working with Django and use Django shell all the time. The annoying part is that while the Django server reloads on code changes, the shell does not, so every time I ma

Answer 1

Using a combination of 2 answers for this I came up with a simple one line approach.

You can run the django shell with -c which will run the commands you pass however it quits immediately after the code is run.

The trick is to setup what you need, run code.interact(local=locals()) and then re-start the shell from within the code you pass. Like this:

python manage.py shell -c 'import uuid;test="mytestvar";import code;code.interact(local=locals())'

For me I just wanted the rich library's inspect method. Only a few lines:

python manage.py shell -c 'import code;from rich import pretty;pretty.install();from rich import inspect;code.interact(local=locals())'

Finally the cherry on top is an alias

alias djshell='python manage.py shell -c "import code;from rich import pretty;pretty.install();from rich import inspect;code.interact(local=locals())"'

Now if I startup my shell and say, want to inspect the form class I get this beautiful output: