Guessable entry points

[Ryan Hiebert]

https://github.com/django/django/pull/4588

I this PR I suggest to add a `django` entry point that is identical to `django-admin`, and a `__main__.py` that also is a mirror of `django-admin`.

There’s also related discussion at https://github.com/django/django/pull/3861

There’s precedent for using these as the primary methods of use all over the place. Flask, in particular, uses both the `flask` command as well as `python -m flask`. Celery also uses the `celery` command as well as `python -m celery`.

I see value in adding these endpoints that are more easily guessable. However, there’s a cost too, the cost of having more than one way to do it. We already have `django-admin` and `django-admin.py`, would adding these obvious entry points give too many options?

Ryan

[Aymeric Augustin]

`python -m django` as a alias for `django-admin` sounds good.

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[Michael Manfre]

I like the alias.

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[Enrique Paredes]

So along this line of thought,  `django-admin` is a good command name? 

To me the admin, in the django world is a clear distint concept to what this command does.

Besides to be used to it, seems more natural to call it `django`. 

Cheers,

E.

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[Florian Apolloner]

On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 3:51:50 PM UTC+2, Enrique Paredes wrote:

So along this line of thought,  `django-admin` is a good command name? 

Does not really matter imo, that is what we have now and we should not change this without a really good reason.

Cheers,
Florian

[Aymeric Augustin]

On 1 mai 2015, at 15:51, Enrique Paredes <mad.z...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So along this line of thought, `django-admin` is a good command name?

Well, it’s a reasonably unambiguous way to refer to the django-admin command, which is good for the docs.

“django” is more ambiguous: it can refer to the framework itself (although incorrectly capitalized) or to the top-level Python package.

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[Marc Tamlyn]

Yes to python -m django

No to django as another alias for django-admin. After all, someone who is just "guessing" will probably type dj<tab> and get django-admin[.py] anyway.

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