'Ello. I'm gauging support for a tiny new feature, or at least a refactoring of an internal API that will allow the feature to be developed without code duplication. I'd like to stop typing import statements for all of my models and other common stuff into my django shell. In fact, I'd love for all of us to stop typing those import statements! I tossed up the following pull requests as an example for how this might look:
https://github.com/django/django/pull/303 This is effectively a subset of the functionality that shell_plus [1] appears to provide. The problem that I have with building my own, or with using shell_plus is that the shell command doesn't allow this change to be built without effectively copying the entire internal implementation of the shell command. New features added to, or issues fixed in shell will have to be copied over to shell_plus, or our homegrown solutions which is unfortunate. So at the very least it seems reasonable to provide something like the get_initial_shell_locals method I added in my pull request, which makes this feature easy enough to add without duplication. In fact, that's where my thinking started but I also don't see a downside to providing this functionality in core either. I don't think it's usefulness is particularly questionable or niche, as the existence of shell_plus seems evidence of. I haven't opened a ticket because the contribution docs suggest gauging consensus, first. So I think these are the two potential (not mutually exclusive) changes worth gauging support for: 1. An overridable method (or some other internal API change?) to make it possible to implement this functionality without copying the entire shell implementation. 2. A default implementation for said method that supports auto-importing useful objects into the shell scope. Curious to hear what people think. Of course, please let me know if I'm going about this the wrong way. Thanks! Phill [1]: https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions/blob/master/django_extensions/management/commands/shell_plus.py -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/gcpo73Sk5aMJ. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
