Using django components outside of django

Using django components (such as the model for DB abstraction) outside of django has a few gotchas, since you need to set up the environment correctly first. Most of the time you can just get away with setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE:

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=yoursite.settings

But this blog has a great summary of the different options. Another approach worth noting is the one manage.py uses:

from django.core.management import setup_environ
from mysite import settings

setup_environ(settings)