The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Second Edition

Appendix F. The django-admin Utility

django-admin.py is Django's command-line utility for administrative tasks. This appendix explains its many powers.

Usually you'll access django-admin.py through a project's manage.py wrapper. manage.py is created automatically in each Django project and is a thin wrapper around django-admin.py. It takes care of two things for you before delegating to django-admin.py:

• It puts your project's package on sys.path.

• It sets the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable so that it points to your project's settings.py file.

The django-admin.py script should be on your system path if you installed Django via its setup.py utility. If it's not on your path, you can find it in site-packages/django/bin within your Python ...