Recently, I got sick of typing django-admin.py <command> to run Django management commands and decided that something must be done about it. This is what I came up with:

This little script creates short aliases for all available Django management commands. Typing this every time you want to work on your project obviously defeats the point, so I added it to bin/activate which is created by virtualenv (you do use virtualenv, don’t you?). I actually do this in a bootstrap script, using this snippet:

If you use virtualenvwrapper, you can append the script to the bin/postactivate script instead.

I know there is bash completion for Django management commands. The advantage of my solution is that it is available for every developer on the project after running the bootstrap script. And it is one character less to type.

To run django-admin.py syncdb, just type djsy<TAB> instead of dj<TAB>sy<TAB>.