django newbie - creating fixtures data from manually entered data

Question

I have finally got my admin part of my django site working.

I am now beginning the tedious part of manually entering the initial data into the database. Obviously, I want this to be a one time affair.

Can anyone suggest to me how I can create fixtures data from my manually entered data, so that I can reload the data (automatically?) when I do a manage.py syncdb ?

Answer 1

Use the dumpdata management command.

python manage.py dumpdata yourappname > app_data.json