I encountered this today... the only way i found to overcome this is to
provide load_initial_data = False kwarg to the command
On Friday, June 24, 2011 2:17:11 PM UTC+4, Gelonida wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm using django 1.3
>
> I tried to create a tiny django app with management functions and to
> create an executable from it.
>
> When trying to call syncdb with following code.
>
> import django.core.management as management
> management.call_command('syncdb')
>
> However the way, that django tries to locate management functions seems
> to be a little unfortunate.
>
> When trying to call 'syncdb' tries to locate the file syncdb.py in all
> potential management directories.
>
> With py2exe the directory does not exist, as the library is a zip file
> syncdb is precompiled, thus only syncdb.pyc (or syncdb.pyo depending on
> the py2exe settings)
>
> Therefore django reports, that syncdb cannot be found.
>
> The colprit seems to be:
> - django/core/__init__.py: find_commands() which searches only for .py
> files
>
> With py2exe only .pyc (or .pyo) files exist and
> all modules are in a zip file and not in a directory tree.
>
> So I decided to call the syncdb function explicitely via
>
>
> import django.core.management.commands.syncdb as syncdb
> syncdb.Command().handle()
>
> Just to find out, that syncdb tries to call the management function
> loaddata, which again cannot be found.
>
>
> So my question:
>
> Did anybody else encounter this issue and if yes how did you work around
> it?
>
> Potential (so far untried solutions), taht I see are
>
> import django.core.management
> and pre-populate _commands manually
>
> monkeypatch django.core.management with a slightly smarter algorithm.
>
> Thanks in advance for any info.
>
>
>
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