Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of CookBookScriptsAliases

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Apr 25, 2006, 2:44:22 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

Antti Kaihola

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CookBookScriptsAliases

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+You can make your life a bit easier by defining Unix shell aliases and environment variables and functions for Django paths and commands. They can be set e.g. in {{{$HOME/.bash_aliases}}} to be loaded automatically.
+
+If you have installed Django in your site-packages, you could use something like:
+{{{
+DJ=/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django
+DJBIN=$DJ/bin
+alias djadmin='$DJBIN/django-admin.py'
+djgrep() {
+  grep -r --include="*.py" --include="*.html" $* $DJ
+}
+}}}
+
+Then you'll be able to:
+{{{
+$ djadmin startproject myproject
+$ $DJBIN/make-messages.py
+$ less $DJ/docs/overview.txt
+$ djgrep Permissions
+/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/models.py:77:            (_('Permissions'), {'fields': ('is_staff', 'is_active', 'is_superuser', 'user_permissions')}),
+}}}
+
+Here's another example for those who don't keep their Django tree in {{{PYTHONPATH}}} (e.g. because of using many different Django versions). In this case the magic-removal branch is located in the user's home directory.
+{{{
+MRP=/home/akaihola/magic-removal  # MRP stands for Magic-Removal Pythonpath
+MR=$MRP/django
+MRBIN=$MR/bin
+alias mradmin='PYTHONPATH=$MRP $MRBIN/django-admin.py'
+mrgrep() {
+  grep -r --include="*.py" --include="*.html" $* $MR
+}
+
+}}}
+
+And some useful idioms using these shortcuts:
+{{{
+$ mradmin startproject myproject
+$ $MRBIN/make-messages.py
+$ PYTHONPATH=$MRP ipython
+In [1]:import django
+In [2]:django.__file__
+Out[2]:'/home/akaihola/magic-removal/django/__init__.pyc'
+}}}