Using Django database layer outside of Django?

You just need to configure the Django settings before you do any calls, including importing your models. Something like this:

from django.conf import settingssettings.configure(    DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql_psycopg2',    DATABASE_NAME = 'db_name',    DATABASE_USER = 'db_user',    DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'db_pass',    DATABASE_HOST = 'localhost',    DATABASE_PORT = '5432',    TIME_ZONE = 'America/New_York',)

Again, be sure to run that code before running, e.g.:

from your_app.models import *

Then just use the DB API as usual.

For django 1.7, I used the following to get up and running.

settings.py:

from django.conf import settingssettings.configure(    DATABASES={        'default': {            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',            'NAME': 'name',            'USER': 'usr',            'PASSWORD': 'secret',            'HOST': '127.0.0.1',            'PORT': '5432',        },    },    TIME_ZONE='America/Montreal',)

In the file containing the startup routine

import osimport djangoimport v10consolidator.settingsfrom myapp.models import *os.environ.setdefault(    "DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE",    "myapp.settings")django.setup()

Update setup_environ is to be removed in django 1.6

If you're able to import your settings.py file, then take a look at handy setup_environ command.

from django.core.management import setup_environfrom mysite import settingssetup_environ(settings)#here you can do everything you could in your project