How to access Django models outside of Django?-CodePudding

I am trying to access my Django models from a script that will be run outside of any Django views. It will be a standalone script and not related to any Django views etc, however, I would like to be able to use the Django ORM to update fields in the database.

My standalone script is in the data directory:

I have tried endless suggestions from SO, such as the code below, but I keep hitting a similar issue - "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'nft.settings'"

import django
import sys
import os
sys.path.append('/Users/chris/Documents/Python/Django/nft/')  # This path being the directory at the top of my screenshot
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "nft.settings")
django.setup()
from nft_app.models import Object

Any help would be greatly appreciated

CodePudding user response：

The short answer is that python looks for packages in the current directory and the PATH. Since you run python script.py in the nft/data directory, it looks for nft/data/nft for the nft package.

One solution to this is to add nft/nft directory to the PYTHONPATH environment variable.