Passing command line arguments in django runscript

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Is there a way to pass command line arguments to a script using django runscript ? The script I am trying to run uses argparse to accept command line arguments.

Command line execution of the script:

./consumer --arg1 arg1 --arg2 arg2

Both arg1 and arg2 are required options.

We tried using script-args but unable to figure out how to use it in this context.

runscript can't run any Python script but requires a special script that implements a run(*args) method. You can't pass arguments to the script that way. — Selcuk
– Selcuk, Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 14:03

GlenVaughan · Accepted Answer · 2024-03-23 19:03:05Z

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Update in 2020: use --script-args

https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/runscript.html#passing-arguments

edited Mar 23, 2024 at 19:03

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Yun Huang Over a year ago

Django-extensions is a good package, but its documentation is poor.

enjoi · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-09 07:03:31Z

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Take a look at Django's Commands

class Command(BaseCommand):
    def add_arguments(self, parser):
        parser.add_argument('--arg1', help="Something helpful")

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        print options['arg1']

And when run:

$python manage.py your_command --arg1 arg
arg

Command works nicely for this sort of thing, as Selcuk said, you can't use arguments in this fashion using RunScript extension.

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