Question

I have 2 settings file (settings.py for my localserver) and (live_settings.py for my live_server).

Starting the shell using python manage.py shell in cmd

When i start the shell in my command prompt it takes settings.py by default, how can i set it to live_settings.py and then start the python shell.

Answer 1

You could start a normal shell (i.e. just typing python in your projct directory rather than using the manage.py helper). and manually set it up with your Django config like so

import live_settings
from django.core.management  import setup_environ
setup_environ(live_settings)

This worked for me. I’ve not used Django in a while now so things might have changed.

Alternatively, you could pass the live_settings.py as the parameter to the --settings option to manage.py. So

python manage.py --settings=live_settings shell

You can also simply set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable to the name of the live_settings.py module and launch manage.py with that. Remember that for the last two approaches, you need to pass the module name as Python would understand it rather than the file name.