[Answer]-Customized django manage.py use case

Well, Hedde is probably right about SQLAlchemy being a better suit, but if you still want to programmatically access manage.py commands, checkout answers to this question.

Django project has a predefined structure, so that syncdb in the scope of the project will affect only the apps which are a part of INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file.

The really fun stuff is that you can even have on-the-fly schema alteration with django-mutant. Of course, you should use it only when you’re absolutely sure about when and what you’re doing :))).