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Reputation: 774

Django: manage.py standard commands not working

I'm developing a web app in Python 2.7 using Django 1.4 with PyCharm 2.5 as my IDE and a Postgres database. I am able to run manage.py commands such as sql and syncdb to create the SQL and the tables, but other commands are not recognized. When I attempt to run sqlreset (or any other command that drops tables or alters data), I get an "Unknown command" error:

runnerw.exe C:\Python27\python.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PyCharm 2.5.1\helpers\pycharm\django_manage.py" sqlreset EventMapperApp C:/Users/Karen/PycharmProjects/eventsMap
Unknown command: 'sqlreset'
Type 'manage.py help' for usage.

Process finished with exit code 1

Could anyone help me figure out what's going on?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5328

Answers (3)

Burhan Khalid
Burhan Khalid

Reputation: 174624

Django's management commands don't automatically run commands that may destroy your database (commands such as altering a table, or changing the type of columns).

If you want to completely reset your application - as if you just ran syncdb, you need to do it manually.

I wrote this gist that will reset your database. It is not portable (only works on *inx-like systems), but it might help you out.

Note: this will delete (drop) everything.

echo 'from django.conf import settings; print settings.INSTALLED_APPS; quit();' | \
python manage.py shell --plain 2>&1 | \
tail -n1 | sed -r "s|^.*\((.*)\).*$|\1|; s|[',]| |g; s|django\.contrib\.||g" | \
xargs python manage.py sqlclear | \
python manage.py dbshell && python manage.py syncdb

Upvotes: 0

Brian Neal
Brian Neal

Reputation: 32389

Are you sure you are running Django 1.4? sqlreset has been deprecated since 1.3, I think, and is slated to be removed in 1.5. It is present in Django 1.4, but has been removed in the development version.

Upvotes: 3

Jon Clements
Jon Clements

Reputation: 142156

There isn't a sqlreset.

Info here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/

or manage.py help as your post shows...

Upvotes: 0

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