[Django]-Django custom command error: unrecognized arguments

In django 1.8 you should add arguments to you command:

class Command(BaseCommand):
    ...
    def add_arguments(self, parser):
        parser.add_argument('username')
        parser.add_argument('password')

add_argument() method of argparse is documented here.

UPDATE: By default arguments are passed in the options parameter so the handle() method should look like this:

def handle(self, *args, **options):
    username = options['username']
    password = options['password']
    ...

And you don’t need to check the length of the args list – it is already done by argparse. This is the recommended method but if you want to use the args argument then you have to use the “compatibility mode” and name the added argument as args:

class Command(BaseCommand):

    def add_arguments(self, parser):
        parser.add_argument('args')

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        if len(args) != 2:
            ...

Read the “Changed in Django 1.8” side note in the first chapter of the docs (right after the closepoll.py example).

UPDATE2: Here is the full working example:

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand    

class Command(BaseCommand):

    def add_arguments(self, parser):
        parser.add_argument('username')
        parser.add_argument('password')

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        username = options['username']
        password = options['password']
        return u'Username: %s  Password: %s' % (username, password)