Django command list with manage.py shell

• Can be run as a cronjob or directly to clean out old data from the database (only expired sessions at the moment).

$ python manage.py cleanup

• Compiles .po files to .mo files for use with builtin gettext support.

$ python manage.py compilemessages

• Creates the table needed to use the SQL cache backend.

$ python manage.py createcachetable

• Used to create a superuser.

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

• Runs the command-line client for the current DATABASE_ENGINE.

$ python manage.py dbshell

• Displays differences between the current settings.py and Django's default settings. Settings that don't appear in the defaults are followed by "###".

$ python manage.py diffsettings

• Output the contents of the database as a fixture of the given format.

$ python manage.py dumpdata

• Executes ``sqlflush`` on the current database.

$ python manage.py flush

• Introspects the database tables in the given database and outputs a Django model module.

$ python manage.py inspectdb

• Installs the named fixture(s) in the database.

$ python manage.py loaddata

• Runs over the entire source tree of the current directory and pulls out all strings marked for translation. It creates (or updates) a message file in the conf/locale (in the django tree) or locale (for project and application) directory.

$ python manage.py makemessages

• Executes ``sqlreset`` for the given app(s) in the current database.

$ python manage.py reset

• Run this project as a fastcgi (or some other protocol supported by flup) application. To do this, the flup package from http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/ is required.

$ python manage.py runfcgi

• tarts a lightweight Web server for development.

$ python manage.py runserver

• Runs a Python interactive interpreter. Tries to use IPython, if it's available.

$ python manage.py shell

• Prints the CREATE TABLE SQL statements for the given app name(s).

$ python manage.py sql

• Prints the CREATE TABLE, custom SQL and CREATE INDEX SQL statements for the given model module name(s).

$ python manage.py sqlall

$ python manage.py

• Prints the DROP TABLE SQL statements for the given app name(s).

$ python manage.py sqlclear

• Prints the custom table modifying SQL statements for the given app name(s).

$ python manage.py sqlcustom

• Returns a list of the SQL statements required to return all tables in the database to the state they were in just after they were installed.

$ python manage.py sqlflush

• Prints the CREATE INDEX SQL statements for the given model module name(s).

$ python manage.py sqlindexes

• RENAMED: see 'sqlcustom'

$ python manage.py sqlinitialdata

• Prints the DROP TABLE SQL, then the CREATE TABLE SQL, for the given app name(s).

$ python manage.py sqlreset

• Prints the SQL statements for resetting sequences for the given app name(s).

$ python manage.py sqlsequencereset

• Creates a Django app directory structure for the given app name in this project's directory.

$ python manage.py startapp

• Create the database tables for all apps in INSTALLED_APPS whose tables haven't already been created.

$ python manage.py syncdb

• Runs the test suite for the specified applications, or the entire site if no apps are specified.

$ python manage.py test

• Runs a development server with data from the given fixture(s).

$ python manage.py testserver

• Validates all installed models.

$ python manage.py validate