def execute_from_command_line():
from django.core.management import setup_environ
sys.path.append(projectpath)
try:
import settings
except ImportError:
print "You don't appear to have a settings file in this directory!"
print "Please run this from inside a project directory"
sys.exit()
setup_environ(settings)
2009/7/2 Harsha Reddy <nhar...@gmail.com>:
>
> after setting the var:
> export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=pyMyApp.settings
>
> it works!!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> On Jul 2, 1:25 pm, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Jul 2, 8:25 am, Harsha Reddy <nhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > I using Django from past one week.
>>
>> > On the Django web site, I read that it is a high-level python web
>> > framework. Inspite of knowing this I am trying to use a Django
>> > application both as a web application as well as a CLI client.
>>
>> > To know if this works out, I created a Django project named "pyMyApp"
>> > and added an application into it.
>> > I updated the:
>>
>> > settings.py to detect my application,
>> > also models.py to create two tables.
>>
>> > I have an other python file in the application which parses XML. This
>> > python file makes use of objects defined in the models.py to store the
>> > parsed values in those 2 tables.
>>
>> > In the directory "../" where my "pyMyApp" resides, I created a file
>> > index.py added the code to test the parser code. Runnning this file
>> > yeilds:
>>
>> > python index.py
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> > File "index.py", line 3, in ?
>> > from pyAPP.translator.translate import *
>> > File "/usr/src/pySCAF/translator/translate.py", line 3, in ?
>> > from pySCAF.translator.models import duo, scenario
>> > File "/usr/src/pySCAF/../pySCAF/translator/models.py", line 1, in ?
>> > from django.db import models
>> > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line
>> > 10, in ?
>> > if not settings.DATABASE_ENGINE:
>> > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py",
>> > line 269, in __getattr__
>> > self._setup()
>> > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py",
>> > line 38, in _setup
>> > raise ImportError("Settings cannot be imported, because
>> > environment variable %s is undefined." % ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE)
>> > ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable
>> > DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.
>>
>> > By looking at the trace, I got a thought that "Django is designed to
>> > be used as web framework"
>> > if at all I want to use it both as cli and web apps, how to achieve
>> > this in the case above?
>>
>> Did you try doing what the error says - setting the
>> DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable?
>>
>> The error has nothing to do with whether you are running as a web app
>> or not.
>> --
>> DR.
>
> >
>
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