Importing a Django model into a python cli script

Question

I am just getting this django app (also an inexperienced python user) running and wanted to be able to access the models.

I have the following:

import sys, os
sys.path.append('/Users/jx/dev/arc/django/second/')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
from django.db import models
from testproject.models import Location
loc=Location.objects.get(name='Joes')

print loc.name

but get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "zz.py", line 6, in <module>
    from testproject.models import Location
ImportError: No module named testproject.models

Is there a way I can determine whether it is loading the settings.py correctly? Or is there an obvious syntax issue? Should the PYTHONPATH reflect the locations for the models (it currently doesn't if print os.environ)?

thx

Answer 1

Django has support for creating custom django-admin commands (documentation).

Very useful for creating command line scripts that access the model.