Can I start up terminal, make it open the python interactive shell and run a few python statements with the same command in os x?

Question

I often do this to prepare for some django debugging:

• Open up a terminal window in os x (10.6)
• start the python interpreter

• run these commands in python:

  from django.core.management import setup_environ
  import settings
  setup_environ(settings)

Is it possible to automate these actions and make a shortcut that I can doubleclick to invoke?

Answer 1

You can use the PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable to your advantage here if you want to throw that in a script and then have a batch file load up a shell with that environment variable.

Answer 2

If you use django you should consider running the command python manage.py shell to debug django applications.

Even better, try the shell_plus command from the excellent django command extension add-on.