how to use manage.py syncdb outside of Django project, such as in Tornado?

I was looking through http://lincolnloop.com/blog/2009/sep/15/using-django-inside-tornado-web-server/ and I thought it was interesting and useful to use parts of Django if we need it in Tornado.

Based on the setup in http://lincolnloop.com/blog/2009/sep/15/using-django-inside-tornado-web-server/ how can we use manage.py syncdb ?

Here's what i have tried so far: I've tried shifting manage.py to the same folder as the tornado project, and ran manage.py syncdb but it returns saying that settings.py is not found.

than i tried to move setting.py to the same folder and ran manage.py again. It tells me that no fixtures found. This time round, I have no idea how to configure settings.py since this is not a Django project.

Any advice or thoughts?

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Hi all, continuing from the above an using advice provided by Agos, i've tried running python manage.py syncdb --settings=dj_tornado and it returns

`"Error: Can't find the file 'settings.py'` in the directory containing 'manage.py'`. It appears you've customized things.
You'll have to run django-admin.py, passing it your settings module.
(If the file settings.py does indeed exist, it's causing an ImportError somehow.)"

So what i did is to run django-admin.py syncdb --settings=dj_tornado and it returns "django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You haven't set the database ENGINE setting yet."

But the weird thing is that the database engine has been set. How would I go about fixing this? i'm using django 1.2.3 and Tornado 0.2 by the开发者_StackOverflow way.

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Hi all, i've applied the advice provided by Agos, with a settings.py file in teh same folder as manage.py, and ran the command django-admin.py syncdb --settings=dj_tornado. I still received the error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You haven't set the database ENGINE setting yet.

But i have already configured the database based engine as follows: in dj_tornado.py:

from django.conf import settings
settings.configure(
    DATABASES = {
        'default': {
            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', 
            'NAME': 'dev.db',

        }
    }
)

I'm kind of at my wits end. How do i use syncdb outside of Django project?

Best.

If I got it correctly, you can just use the --settings switch to point manage.py to the dj_tornado.py, which is your settings file after all

Update 1

from the help, available at python manage.py help:

Options:
  --settings=SETTINGS   The Python path to a settings module, e.g.
                        "myproject.settings.main". If this isn't provided, the
                        DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will be
                        used.

So I would try this:

python manage.py syncdb --settings=dj_tornado

Update 2

Another error, another update to the answer!
First of all, consider that that blog post is quite old (september 2009). Django's

DATABASES

The syntax in the blog post was:

settings.configure(DATABASE_ENGINE='sqlite3', DATABASE_NAME='dev.db')

With Django 1.2.X this is surely not correct. This would be the equivalent version:

settings.configure(DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': 'dev.db'
    }
})

(sorry for the horrible formatting of the code).

If this still won't work, I'd consider creating a “standard” Django settings file to import. But my bet is on the db settings syntax.

Last update, I swear

Have you tried using django-admin.py again with the new syntax? If so, and still didn't work, a minimal settings.py would be just this:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': 'dev.db'
    }
}

You can also keep the original configuration inside dj_tornado.py and use settings.py just to do syncdb.