Thank you both. I had it working (though it was far from elegant), so that other thread will be very helpful.
--Jon On 19/08/06, Bryan Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See: > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/51827a2a40e5262e > > Bryan :) > > > > On 8/19/06, Jon Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to schedule some operations on my database to happen at a > > certain time each day. I'm tackling this by using cron, so ideally I'd > > like to be able to write a stand-alone python script which will do > > this. > > > > My first though would be to pass a script to ./manage.py shell, > > (something like ./manage.py shell myscript.py), but this doesn't seem > > to work. I've tried also writing a stand-alone script and importing > > the necessary modules, but I'm having problems with > > DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE not being set (it seems that django does some > > magic which is beyond me at this point) - am I approaching this in the > > correct way, and if so what do I need to import/read from settings.py > > so that a stand-alone script can interact with my models? > > > > Thanks, > > > > --Jon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
