Support `manage.py shell -c 'run_code_as_django()'`?

[Tim Graham]

Similar to "python -c", there's been a request for:

python manage.py shell -c 'run_code_as_django()'

to avoid writing simple management commands. What do you think about this idea?

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25680

[Zach Borboa]

I've used

cat script.py | python manage.py shell

[Collin Anderson]

I would use this feature. It would be nice for calling a simple function.

Though if we didn't add the feature it would be nice to document the text piping option.

The one downside of the piping is you get a little bit of garbage in the output, especially when iPython is installed.

[Zach Borboa]

Nice to see that this was implemented.

$ cat myscript.py

import django

print(django.__version__)

$ python manage.py shell --command="import myscript"

1.10.dev20160112100000

The --command option lets you pass a command as a string to execute it as Django, like so:

django-admin shell --command="import django; print(django.__version__)"

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-option---command