[Django]-Using profiles in iPython and Django

BryanWheelock Your solution won’t work because your shell is the result of the spawn not a direct interatction with it. What you want to do is this – or at least this is what I do.

Within your workspace (the place where you type python manage.py shell) create a ipythonrc file. In it put the following:

include ~/.ipython/ipythonrc

execute from django.contrib.auth.models import User
# .
# .
# .
execute import_some module_name model1 model2

For example I also add the following lines in mine..

# Setup Logging
execute import sys
execute import logging
execute loglevel = logging.DEBUG
execute logging.basicConfig(format="%(levelname)-8s %(asctime)s %(name)s %(message)s", datefmt='%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', stream=sys.stdout )
execute log = logging.getLogger("")
execute log.setLevel(loglevel)
execute log.debug("Logging has been initialized from ipythonrc")
execute log.debug("Root Logger has been established - use \"log.LEVEL(MSG)\"")
execute log.setLevel(loglevel)
execute log.debug("log.setlevel(logging.DEBUG)")
execute print ""

This allows you to use logging in your modules and keep it DRY. Hope this helps.

shell_plus command of django-extensions can import the model automatically, but it seems can not load the profile of ipython. I have did some hacky job to make this done.

use start_ipython to launch ipython shell instead of embed and pass some arguments to it.

I have also wrote a blog post, you can find the detail here