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django-and-ipython.md

Use ipython shell with Django

Ordinary Django shell

$ python manage.py shell

does not do autocompletion, doc pretty-printing or other nice-to-have-things.

A way around this is using the ipython shell. We'll assume that both django and ipython are installed (in an active virtualenv), and that the django project in question is called mysite (e.g. made via $ django-admin startproject mysite).

1st set up the environment:

$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mysite.settings

then launch ipython and wire in django:

In [1]: import django
In [2]: django.setup()
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