flask python manage.py shell equivalent in fastapi

Question

I am using python manage.py shell in my flask application to use IPython shell for accessing my application from shell. Is there any equivalent for this in fastApi?

Answer 1

If you want to interact with orm models directly, you can run main.py in interactive mode and import all your models there.

To enter interactive mode, run

python3 -i app/app/main.py

-i flag allows you to

enter interactive mode after executing the script or the command

After entering the interactive shell, you can import all the models using

from app.models import *

Note that your models structure might be different so you have to change the above import accordingly. In my case all the models was imported in __init__.py file, that's why I could import all of them in one go.