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How to use Django 1.8.5 ORM without creating a django project?

I've used Django ORM for one of my web-app and I'm very much comfortable with it. Now I've a new requirement which needs the database but nothing else that Django offers. I don't want to invest more time in learning another ORM like SQLAlchemy.

I think I can still do:

from django.db import models

and create models, but then without manage.py how would I do migration and syncing?

Solution

  • Django 1.11 documentation on how the applications are loaded

    For latest django version project structure would be-

    |--myproject
|--main.py
|--manage.py
|--myapp
|   |--models.py
|   |--views.py
|   |--admin.py
|   |--apps.py
|   |--__init__.py
|   |--migrations
|--myproject
|   |--settings.py
|   |--urls.py
|   |--wsgi.py
|   |--__init__.py

    You would still need manage.py to run migrations, main.py is your standalone script

    # main.py
import os
import django
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'myproject.settings'
django.setup()
from myapp.models import MyModel
print(MyModel.objects.all()[0])