Question

I’d like to browse active classes in Django. I think I’d learn a lot that way. So what’s a good way to do that?

I could use IDLE if I knew how to start Django from within IDLE. But as I’m new to Python/Django, I’m not particularly wedded to IDLE. Other alternatives?

Answer 1

playing with the API

You can easily get a django project loaded in IDLE. All it needs is the project on sys.path and os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] set to the settings package.

E.g.

import sys
import os
sys.path.append("/path/to/parent") # under which myproject is hosted
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'myproject.settings'
import myproject.myapp.models # or whatever

Should be all you need.