DJANGO: executing other .py program from views.py

Question

I've xmlparser.py. This .py parses a local XML file and then create/update objects from models SQLITE3 database.

This xmlparser.py file is in the same folder as views.py. Well, I wanna "execute" xmlparser.py (which update my db) and then get in views.py database objects updated for HttpResponse.

How could I do that?

Answer 1

I guess whatever you do in xmlparser.py is done with classes and functions. you should be able to import it and use those methods in the current python file.

Answer 2

In views.py:

import xmlparser

Then just use it as other python modules. Eg

xmlparser.your_method

Answer 3

You can execute anything on the OS with:

from subprocess import call
call(["python","xmlparser.py"])

Also look at the second answer here:

using python subprocess call to invoke python script