Passing command line arguments in django runscript

Question

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, Jul 12 '16 at 14:03

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 10 '20 at 10:01

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Update in 2020: use --script-args

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

answered May 10 '20 at 10:01

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Django-extensions is a good package, but its documentation is poor. – Yun Huang Feb 07 '21 at 06:50

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 09 '16 at 07:03

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.

Passing command line arguments in django runscript

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