Django: Unable to import models globally

Question

I am running some python scripts which pertains with a django application. So I manually made a folder (named scripts) that contains some python scripts but is not made using ./manage.py startapp scripts. Along with this folder there is a modelsapp django app (which contains my models) and then project folder containing settings.py and urls.py.

I run ./manage.py shell < scripts/script.py to run my script.

Now here is a sample code of my scripts.py

from modelsapp.models import *
print(Room.objects.all())

This works pretty well. Now consider a second case. I now just run ./manage.py shell and then put the following commands-

>>>from modelsapp.models import *
>>>def init():
...    print(Room.objects.all())
...
>>>init()

This also works pretty well. But now when I run the above code through the file in the first case, it says NameError: name 'Room' is not defined

It looks like the model classes which I just imported aren't accessibly inside a function. This behavior is a bit weird.

Please help. In case I missed anything to mention, do comment below.

Edit: Since this is a bit weird behavior and am not able to find any answers to it, I am just going to pass the class Room directly to the function init() as a parameter to get the work done as of now.

Answer 1

after you run the django shell, you can run your script with:

>>>execfile('filename.py')

if you want to run it in a normal python shell (not using python manage.py shell) you have to do:

import django
import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "project(name.settings")
django.setup()