django custom command not found

Having issues getting django custom commands to work.

From django <a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-management-commands/">documetation</a>, have placed

application/
manage.py
blog/
__init__.py
models.py
management/
__init__.py
commands/
__init__.py
myapp_task.py
views.py

myapp_task.py content is


from django.core.management.base import NoArgsCommand

class Command(NoArgsCommand):
def handle_noargs(self, **options):
print 'Doing task...'
# invoke the functions you need to run on your project here
print 'Done'

when ran

python manage.py myapp_task

getting error

Unknown command: 'myapp_task'

I think commands/ needs to be inside the management/ directory.

I had the same problem. The reason was that the project root was not in my $PYTHONPATH. The solution in this case is to type (on a Linux machine) something like

PYTHONPATH=./project python manage.py myapp_task

If the project is byte-compiled, django.core.management.find_commands() will only look for .py files. If your custom commands are in .pyc files, you need to patch django/core/management/commands/\__init__.py with the patch at

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It is because the __init__.pyc does not get created automatically within "management" and "commands" folder. Copy `your_app/__init__.py` and `your_app/__init__.pyc` and paste it within the management/ and commands/ folder.

The directory structure in your answer is a little ambiguous; when placing the files as follows django should be able to find your command:

project/ # in your question this would be 'application'
manage.py
blog/
__init__.py
models.py
management/
__init__.py
commands/
__init__.py
myapp_task.py
views.py

Furthermore, you'll need to enable your app in your ``settings.py``:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'blog', # <= your app here ...
)

Hi I also had this problem and found out I was mixing up the argument identifier with the file name

so the file is the name of the command you want i.e. <code>updater</code> I changed <b>updatefiles.py</b> to <b>updater.py</b>


class Command(BaseCommand):
help = 'Update Files Since \'X\' Days Ago'

def add_arguments(self, parser):
parser.add_argument('updatefiles', nargs='+', type=int)

def handle(self, *args, **options):

days_ago = int(options['updatefiles'][0])
days_ago = (days_ago * -1) if days_ago < 0 else days_ago

self.stdout.write('Adding files since %s days ago' % days_ago)
add_files_function(days_ago)


then to run I would use

python manage.py updater

I had this same problem. I had cut and paste the filename from an example and had paste a space at the start of the filename. Therefore Django could not find it.

My problem was I was adding the management directory in my main app besides my settings.py file once I have added it to another app it worked