shell_plus and Better Tooling
Speed up shell work with django-extensions.
The Tedious Part
The default shell makes you import every model by hand each session. That repetition gets old fast on real projects.
Meet shell_plus
shell_plus is an upgraded shell from the django-extensions package. It auto-imports your models and common helpers for you.
All lessons in this course
- Launching python manage.py shell
- Importing and Inspecting Models
- Creating and Saving Objects Live
- shell_plus and Better Tooling