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Feb 25, 2021 at 9:06 comment added Serhii Kushchenko I confirm that exec(open('myscript.py').read()) works currently in Django 3.1.5 shell
Jan 14, 2021 at 7:15 comment added Tech I've used ./manage.py shell < myscript.py with python 3. Worked flawlessly
Jun 2, 2020 at 1:39 comment added Aditya Wirayudha if you're doing this on Windows power shell : Get-Content myscript.py | .\manage.py shell
Dec 27, 2018 at 2:48 comment added Sean Letendre And how can I use command line arguments to myscript.py in this manner?
Jun 22, 2017 at 8:00 history edited Jonathan CC BY-SA 3.0
Python3 specific code.
Sep 1, 2016 at 13:41 comment added acidjunk the above comment even works with an installed ipython :)
Jun 8, 2016 at 15:02 comment added Atul Varma Another solution that appears to work for both Python 2.x and 3.x is echo 'import myscript' | python manage.py shell. I've found this can be useful for quick-and-dirty scripts that you only need to run once, without having to go through the cumbersome process of creating a manage.py command.
May 13, 2016 at 16:01 comment added Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com 1.9.6 passes the stdin to a code.interact github.com/django/django/blob/1.9.6/django/core/management/… | docs.python.org/2/library/code.html Likely the interactive nature of it breaks things. There should be a CLI option of shell to pass stdin to an eval.
Apr 23, 2015 at 12:13 comment added peter2108 @DavidD. The replacement is given in this answer here
Apr 5, 2015 at 13:27 comment added David Dahan It does not work anymore with Python 3+. Any idea to replace this?
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Jul 5, 2013 at 0:49 comment added Steve Bennett For me, this only executes the first line of the script. The only thing that works is combining both methods: ./manage.py shell <<EOF\ execfile('myscript.py') \EOF
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May 31, 2013 at 9:13 history answered codeape CC BY-SA 3.0
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