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Babu

Reputation: 2598

Django: manage.py custom command not found

When I do python manage.py help

[myapp]
        update_overall_score 
        update_periodic_score

my custom command is listed, in which I can able to run update_periodic_score through python manage.py update_periodic_score but when I try the other one, I get the Unknown command: 'update_overall_score' error.

What would be the problem? Both the files are placed in myapp/management/commands directory with __init__.py in all the directories.

This is my update_overall_score.py,

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
from myapp.models import Users

class Command(BaseCommand):
    """
    Updates the overall_score field of every user.
    """
    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        all_users = Users.objects.all()
        try:
            for user in all_users:
                likes = user.likes_received.count()
                stars = user.stars_received.count()
                user.overall_score = likes + stars
                user.save()
        except Exception, e:
            print e
            return
        print "Updated Overall Score."
        return

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8913

Answers (1)

Simanas
Simanas

Reputation: 2793

I had the same exact problem. After a few hours of searching through manage.py code it showed up that this was caused by my settings file configurations. I was using Mezzanine as my CMS. When you use it Mezzanine kind of says that you can put some apps under OPTIONAL_APPS variable, so I had my custom app under this variable but not in INSTALLED_APPS. Moved back to INSTALLED_APPS and everything started working as expected.

Make sure you have your application nowhere else than under INSTALLED_APPS. manage.py looks exactly to this constant.

Upvotes: 6

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