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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/howto/custom-management-commands.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.5.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/howto/custom-management-commands.txt b/docs/howto/custom-management-commands.txt index 2b34d35de7..4a27bdf7a9 100644 --- a/docs/howto/custom-management-commands.txt +++ b/docs/howto/custom-management-commands.txt @@ -317,8 +317,12 @@ Exception class indicating a problem while executing a management command. If this exception is raised during the execution of a management -command, it will be caught and turned into a nicely-printed error -message to the appropriate output stream (i.e., stderr); as a -result, raising this exception (with a sensible description of the +command from a command line console, it will be caught and turned into a +nicely-printed error message to the appropriate output stream (i.e., stderr); +as a result, raising this exception (with a sensible description of the error) is the preferred way to indicate that something has gone wrong in the execution of a command. + +If a management command is called from code through +:ref:`call_command <call-command>`, it's up to you to catch the exception +when needed. diff --git a/docs/releases/1.5.txt b/docs/releases/1.5.txt index 0fec53ab6d..0d86a52670 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.5.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.5.txt @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ Django 1.5 also includes several smaller improvements worth noting: * The generic views support OPTIONS requests. +* Management commands do not raise ``SystemExit`` any more when called by code + from :ref:`call_command <call-command>`. Any exception raised by the command + (mostly :ref:`CommandError <ref-command-exceptions>`) is propagated. + * The dumpdata management command outputs one row at a time, preventing out-of-memory errors when dumping large datasets. |