Use Django ORM as standalone [closed]

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Published on 2009-06-02T02:58:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 9:23 UTC
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I want to use the Django ORM as standalone. Despite an hour of searching Google, I'm still left with several questions:

  • Does it require me to set up my Python project with a setting.py, /myApp/ directory, and modules.py file?
  • Can I create a new models.py and run syncdb to have it automatically setup the tables and relationships or can I only use models from existing Django projects?
  • There seems to be a lot of questions regarding PYTHONPATH. If you're not calling existing models is this needed?

I guess the easiest thing would be for someone to just post a basic template or walkthrough of the process, clarifying the organization of the files e.g.:

db/
   __init__.py
   settings.py
   myScript.py
orm/
   __init__.py
   models.py

And the basic essentials:

# settings.py
from django.conf import settings

settings.configure(
     DATABASE_ENGINE   = "postgresql_psycopg2",
     DATABASE_HOST     = "localhost",
     DATABASE_NAME     = "dbName",
     DATABASE_USER     = "user",
     DATABASE_PASSWORD = "pass",
     DATABASE_PORT     = "5432"
)

# orm/models.py
# ...

# myScript.py
# import models..

And whether you need to run something like: django-admin.py inspectdb ...

(Oh, I'm running Windows if that changes anything regarding command-line arguments.).

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