How to reset db in Django? I get a command 'reset' not found error

Question

reset has been replaced by flush with Django 1.5, see:

python manage.py help flush

It looks like the 'flush' answer will work for some, but not all cases. I needed not just to flush the values in the database, but to recreate the tables properly. I'm not using migrations yet (early days) so I really needed to drop all the tables.

Two ways I've found to drop all tables, both require something other than core django.

If you're on Heroku, drop all the tables with pg:reset:

heroku pg:reset DATABASE_URL
heroku run python manage.py syncdb

If you can install Django Extensions, it has a way to do a complete reset:

python ./manage.py reset_db --router=default

Similar to LisaD's answer, Django Extensions has a great reset_db command that totally drops everything, instead of just truncating the tables like "flush" does.

python ./manage.py reset_db

Merely flushing the tables wasn't fixing a persistent error that occurred when I was deleting objects. Doing a reset_db fixed the problem.

if you are using Django 2.0 Then

python manage.py flush 

will work

If you want to clean the whole database, you can use: python manage.py flush If you want to clean database table of a Django app, you can use: python manage.py migrate appname zero

With django 1.11, simply delete all migration files from the migrations folder of each application (all files except __init__.py). Then

1. Manually drop database.
2. Manually create database.
3. Run python3 manage.py makemigrations.
4. Run python3 manage.py migrate.

And voilla, your database has been completely reset.