from django_setup import parse_commandline

parse_commandline()

or, as a context manager

from django_setup import DjangoSetup

with DjangoSetup():
    import ...

This module provides some setup and support for some generic command line options for scripts that require access to the Django environment, including manage.py itself.

Some code in this module is specific to the APN/Newscorp environment although the code can easily be adaptred for any other environment. See the common_init and default_settings functions in this module for further information.

parse_commandline supports some additional kwargs:

• env (default=None) is a Env instance (see django-settings-env) if not specified or set to None, one is created. This may be useful to prepare the environment before Django is initialised.
• setup (default=False) specifies whether to call django.setup() to run all Django initialisations and readying apps

DjangoSetup is a context manager that takes the same arguments and does much the same as parse_commandline except that by default setup=True.

Django imports, specifically models in your apps, should be placed within the context manger to ensure that apps are ready to be accessed in your script.