Question

I want to run a python scripts which should do:

1. Create a django project: django-admin startproject foobar
2. Create a app in the project: python manage.py barfoo
3. Add an entry of newly created app barfoo in the setting’s INSTALLED_APP.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Read a little abour subprocess and Popen method. This might be what you’re looking for.

1. Popen(["django-admin", "startproject", "%s" % your_name ], stdout=PIPE).communicate()

2. Popen(["python", "manage.py", "%s" % your_app_name ], stdout=PIPE).communicate()

3.
I know that’s not a perfect code, but I’m just giving an idea.

with open("settings.py", 'r') as file:
    settings = file.readlines()

new_settings = []
for line in settings:
    if "INSTALLED APPS" in line:
        new_settings.append(line.replace("INSTALLED_APPS = (", "INSTALLED_APPS = (\n'%s'," % your_app_name))
    else:
        new_settings.append(line)
with open("settings.py", 'w') as file:
    file.write("".join(new_settings))