Django Command Extensions

This is an indispensable tool for my Django development.<p>Highlights:<p>* shell_plus - will open a Python shell with your models from the project already imported.<p>* runserver_plus - <a href="http://code.google.com/p/django-command-extensions/wiki/RunServerPlus" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/django-command-extensions/wiki/RunS...</a> is a great debugging tool. It will give you an Ajax Python shell where the error occurred.<p>* dumpscript - is the most pythonic way to make backups of your database. "Generates a Python script that will repopulate the database using objects"<p>If you are using Django, use this project.

A screencast on the subject:<p><a href="http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/sep/12/screencast-django-command-extensions/" rel="nofollow">http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/sep/12/screencast-django-c...</a>

You can add these kind of command extensions to your python projects by using <a href="http://pythonpaste.org/" rel="nofollow">http://pythonpaste.org/</a><p>Pylons, repoze.bfg etc already use paste for generating project templates, custom shell and runserver.<p>It is quite easy to add this to any python project.

Shell_plus is just what I was looking for. Shell driven coding really speeds up my development, and this helps a lot by relieving me of copying and pasting many imports every time I run a new shell.

I discovered this via pinax and love it. It's trivial to setup for django users.