Comments on: Django Scripting and the Crontab

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:03:50 +0000

I discovered later that this had to do with my hosting provider rather than Django.

By: Mandx

Mandx — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:54:07 +0000

There is no need to change the current directory to where “manage.py” is in the crontab. Just give Python the full path to it, followong with the necesary parameters:

* * * * * python /home/path/to/project/manage.py mycommand

By: David

David — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:13:51 +0000

If you override the __init__ method of BaseCommand, you must still call the BaseCommand constructor. When Django attempts to output an error (raised by CommandError) to the screen, it attempts to style it. Errors will be printed in bold red text or something similar based on your terminal settings. If you see an error like this: AttributeError: 'Command' object has no attribute 'style' You need the following in your Command constructor:

class Command(BaseCommand):
    def __init__(self):
        # Call the BaseCommand constructor
        super(Command, self).__init__()

        # ...

    def handle(self, *app_labels, **options):
        pass