Setup Django environment in Pythonista 3 on iOS. Works with Django 2.0+, must have stash installed.

init_django.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import io
import os
import tarfile

import requests
import stash


SITE_PACKAGES = os.path.expanduser("~/Documents/site-packages-3")
ICLOUD = (
    '/private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile Documents/'
    'iCloud~com~omz-software~Pythonista3/Documents/'
)
MANAGE_PY = """{imports}

sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))


def run(args):
    os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "{name}.settings"

    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line as execute

    execute(['manage.py'] + args)

{mains}"""

HELPER_PY = """#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os

from manage import run


run(os.path.split(__file__)[-1][:-len(".py")].split("_"))
"""

HELPERS = [
    "runserver --noreload",
    "migrate",
]



def install_django():
    try:
        import django
        return
    except ImportError:
        pass
    print("Installing Django")
    url = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django/json"
    response = requests.get(url).json()
    download_url = [
        url_dict["url"]
        for url_dict in response["urls"]
        if url_dict["packagetype"] == "sdist"
    ][0]
    response = requests.get(download_url)
    fobj = io.BytesIO(response.content)
    tar = tarfile.open(fileobj=fobj)
    package_name = download_url.split("/")[-1][: -len(".tar.gz")]

    def members(tar):
        for member in tar.getmembers():
            if member.path.startswith(f"{package_name}/django/"):
                member.path = member.path[len(f"{package_name}/") :]
                yield member

    tar.extractall(path=SITE_PACKAGES, members=members(tar))


def init_project():
    name = input("Please enter project name: ").lower()
    project_root = f"{ICLOUD}/{name.upper()}"
    os.mkdir(project_root)
    _stash = stash.core.StaSh(
        no_cfgfile=True, no_rcfile=True, no_historyfile=True, command=False,
    )
    _stash.launch()
    command = (
        f"{SITE_PACKAGES}/django/bin/django-admin.py "
        f"startproject {name} '{project_root}'"
    )
    _stash(command, add_to_history=False, persistent_level=0)
    return name


def patch_project(name):
    project_root = f"{ICLOUD}/{name.upper()}"
    with open(f"{project_root}/manage.py") as fobj:
        lines = fobj.readlines()

    sep = [i for i, line in enumerate(lines) if line.strip() == ""][0]
    with open(f"{project_root}/manage.py", 'w') as fobj:
        fobj.write(
            MANAGE_PY.format(
                imports="".join(lines[:sep]), mains="".join(lines[sep:]),
                name=name,
            )
        )

    for helper in HELPERS:
        with open(f"{project_root}/{helper.replace(' ', '_')}.py", 'w') as fobj:
            fobj.write(HELPER_PY.format(name=name))


def main():
    install_django()
    project_name = init_project()
    patch_project(project_name)
    print("To finalize the process, please quit Pythonista 3 now.")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Hi,

This just creates an empty folder for me - no project structure or manage.py. Would be grateful for some assistance. Perhaps over at https://join.slack.com/t/pythonista-app/shared_invite/zt-e0lqpqxf-KeycxIw~tLZ1gS3485rgXg ?