Use Django ORM outside of Django

Question

I\'m new to Django and want to use its ORM in my scripts without running whole Django thing. I\'m scratching my head how to configure it. Searches on StackOverflow didn\'t h

Answer 1

Here's an updated version, fix was including django.setup() line and some additional settings and includes:

manage.py

import os
import sys
import django
from django.conf import settings

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'orm',
]

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE' : 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME' : 'playground',
        'USER' : 'admin',
        'PASSWORD' : 'pasw',
        'HOST' : 'localhost',
    }
}

settings.configure(
    INSTALLED_APPS = INSTALLED_APPS,
    DATABASES = DATABASES,
)

django.setup()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line

    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

And app.py:

import manage
from orm.models import Label

if __name__ == '__main__':

    Label.objects.create(name='test')
    print(Label.objects.get(name='test'))

Hope someone will find it useful.