Running a Python script outside of Django

Question

I have a script which uses the Django ORM features, amongst other external libraries, that I want to run outside of Django (that is, executed from the command-line).

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Answer 1

I like to add the following command to my projects:

myproject/management/commands/run-script.py:

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError

import imp
import sys


class Command(BaseCommand):

    help = """Run a non-django script with django settings."""
    args = " [...]"

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        if len(args) == 0:
            raise CommandError("Path to script to run is required")
        sys.argv = list(args)
        imp.load_source("__main__", args[0])

Then, I can run custom scripts, e.g:

./manage.py run-script /path/to/myscript.py --opt=value arg1 arg2