[Answered ]-Django in Eclipse

Some of the admin tasks like creating projects or syncing the database are best done from the command line. Personally, I like to define a bunch of shell aliases–like these: http://ramin.firoozye.com/2008/03/03/django-bash-shell-shortcuts/
so I don’t have to remember to type all that stuff.

But you can use PyDev and Eclipse to start up the server — which makes it easy to set breakpoints and step through the code. Once configured, you can just hit the ‘debugger’ button and it launches the Django server and waits for you to hit it.

Here are instructions on how to configure Pydev for Django use:

http://pydev.blogspot.com/2006/09/configuring-pydev-to-work-with-django.html

EDIT: I missed that you were talking about DOS. You can get the same effect as shell aliases by using batch files and environment variables. Or use Cygwin and get a bash shell.

Can you set up a separate script in eclipse to use subprocess.popen to run the commands you need to then wait for input to kill the child process?