Django snippets: Autoload Django Models When Using ./manage.py shell

Autoload Django Models When Using ./manage.py shell

from django.db.models.loading import get_models
for m in get_models():
    exec "from %s import %s" % (m.__module__, m.__name__)

It's a pain to import all the Django models you want to use in the Python shell every time you start it. Here's how you can get IPython to autoload all your Django models for you every time you start the shell using ./manage.py shell.

Put the code in a .py file in the root of your project. Then tell IPython to load the script in ~/.ipython/ipythonrc in the "Python files to load and execute" section.

Author:: sheats
Posted:: January 9, 2008
Language:: Python
Tags:: autoload import interpreter shell
Score:: 6 (after 8 ratings)

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udfalkso (on January 10, 2008):

I've been dying for a solution to this, thanks!

dnordberg (on January 10, 2008):

I posted something like this 4 months ago, http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/375/

adnan (on May 29, 2008):

http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/549/ worked better for me

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