Django application can execute python code in your project's environment on django admin site. You can use similar as python manage shell without reloading the environment.

• Tested by tox with:

  • Python :2.7, 3.4
  • Django : 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 2.0-dev

• Require:

  • Django >= 1.9

• Tested on browsers

  • OK - Firefox 50.1.0 - Ubuntu 14.04
  • OK - Firefox 31.1 - CentOS 6.4
  • OK - Chromium 53.0 - Ubuntu 14.04
  • OK - Microsoft Edge 38 - Windows 10
  • OK - Internet Explorer 11.0 - Windows 8.1
  • OK - Internet Explorer 10.0 - Windows 7
  • OK - Internet Explorer 9.0 - Windows 7
  • ERR - Internet Explorer 8.0 - Windows 7 (javascripts not working / console work properly)

1. Install:

   pip install django-admin-shell
   
   or
   
   pip install git+https://github.com/djk2/django-admin-shell.git
   
   or after download zip
   
   pip install django-admin-shell.zip
   

2. Add django_admin_shell to your INSTALLED_APPS setting

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_admin_shell',
    ...
]

3. Add the django_admin_shell urls to your root url patterns (above admin/) :

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/shell/', include('django_admin_shell.urls')),
    ...
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

• shell is available on url: /admin/shell
• On default settings user must be authenticated to django admin site and User must have superuser permission and DEBUG mode must be set on True.

type : bool

default : True

If shell is enable or disable. When application is disable then url: /admin/shell return Http404 Not found

type : bool

default : True

If flag is set on True, then shell is available only in DEBUG mode.

If debug mode is required and debug mode is disabled then url: /admin/shell will return Http 403 Forbidden

type : bool

default : True

If flag is set on True, then shell is available only for user with superuser permission.

If superuser is required and user not have permission then url: /admin/shell will return Http 403 Forbidden

type : integer

default : 250

Flag determines how many outputs can be remember.

type : string

default : django_admin_shell_output

Name for key in session where is stored history last executed codes.

• show django settings:

  from django.conf import settings
  
  for key in dir(settings):
      val = getattr(settings, key, None)
      print(key, "=", val)
  

• run command in operating system and take output:

  import os
  
  os.system('date > /tmp/admin_console.tmp')
  os.system('echo ------- >> /tmp/admin_console.tmp')
  os.system('who >> /tmp/admin_console.tmp')
  os.system('echo ------- >> /tmp/admin_console.tmp')
  os.system('ps aux | grep python >> /tmp/admin_console.tmp')
  
  with open('/tmp/admin_console.tmp', 'r') as f:
      print(f.read())
  

• run big python code (get python source from website):

  import requests
  
  req = requests.get('https://foo.bar.com/example.py')
  if req.status_code == 200:
      code = req.text
      print(code, '\n------------\n')
      exec(code)
  

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/
• https://jquery.com/
• https://alan.blog-city.com/jquerylinedtextarea.htm

• https://github.com/onrik/django-webshell