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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/django-admin.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/django-admin.txt b/docs/django-admin.txt index f098dfa988..e751a7b3d9 100644 --- a/docs/django-admin.txt +++ b/docs/django-admin.txt @@ -741,22 +741,25 @@ Customized actions **New in Django development version** -If you want to add an action of your own to ``manage.py``, you can. -Simply add a ``management/commands`` directory to your application. -Each python module in that directory will be discovered and registered as +Applications can register their own actions with ``manage.py``. For example, +you might want to add a ``manage.py`` action for a Django app that you're +distributing. + +To do this, just add a ``management/commands`` directory to your application. +Each Python module in that directory will be auto-discovered and registered as a command that can be executed as an action when you run ``manage.py``:: - /fancy_blog + blog/ __init__.py models.py - /management + management/ __init__.py - /commands + commands/ __init__.py explode.py views.py -In this example, ``explode`` command will be made available to any project +In this example, the ``explode`` command will be made available to any project that includes the ``fancy_blog`` application in ``settings.INSTALLED_APPS``. The ``explode.py`` module has only one requirement -- it must define a class |