Easiest Django Shell/Terminal

Django shell is a great tool to interact with Models over the terminal, but bpython is a better solution because of the autocomplete feature that makes someone's life much easier. However, bpython doesn't handle Django models in a smart way, for example if you try a filter() method, it won't allow you to autocomplete parameters using the class members,as the function has **kwargs as the function fingerprint.

So, in this article, we will discuss bpython-django a fork from bpython that handles Django in a better way, currently it handles Models and can be extended as desired.

bpython-django

Install

pip install bpython-django

Start your django shell

After the module is installed, you start you shell by
python manage.py shell -i bpython
or

python manage.py shell

Use the shell as you wish, as shown in next asciienma

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