You need your external program to do several things: 1) make sure django is on your PYTHONPATH (or within the Python script, on sys.path) 2) make sure your apps are also on the PYTHONPATH (or sys.path) 3) set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable in your shell or script
Then you just import the same way you would in Django itself: from appname.models import MyModel On Aug 20, 3:03 pm, clochemer <cloche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > It's my first question, and that's because I am totally lost. I am not > a great Django developer (neither a good Python programmer) so I do > not even know if I am doing the right things, let me explain... > > I have an external Python program which reads from a socket and > depending on what it receives, it inserts some new models in Django > database. All clear right here? > > Let's go on... I said myself "Hey genius, you only have to import the > models and that's all!". So I made a new folder on my project path > called utils, so I have something like... /home/myproject/utils/ > communicator.py, where my fantastic program is located. > > But as all of you might have already seen, i don't know how to import > models form there. > > I had a problem similar, as i defined some Python functions which deal > with models and are used in several Django applications, but i solved > it by locating those functions in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ > django/contrib/myproject and the import worked. I guess the problem is > in a Python/Django paths misunderstanding of mine. > > I need some wisdom & guidance, > > Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
