How to run django-admin.py, when django is in an egg?

Question

I have inherited a project, which was deployed with buildout and is running fine. I've made some changes in the translation .po file, but to compile to .mo file I need to run

django-admin.py compilemessages

How can I do this, when the only place I find django-admin.py is in an egg? The project is not using virtualenv.

Answer 1

If you are not using virtualenv then everything should be on your PYTHONPATH . With that in mind look at https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/bin/django-admin.py :

#!/usr/bin/env python
from django.core import management

if __name__ == "__main__":
    management.execute_from_command_line()

Not the big deal to make your own django-admin.py , isn't it? And that should do the trick. But don't forget to set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE env variable.

Answer 2

Apparently, there was a django file, which set all of the eggs to be in sys.path, and then passed commands to django. I don't know if that is standard in buildout, though.