Django for Jupyter

It's true packages exist to make it "easy" to use Django inside of a jupyter notebook. I seem to always run into issues successfully running these packages. I've found the below method useful although I cannot recall how I discovered how this works (aka attribution needed).

Requirements

• Virtual Environment (virtualenv, venv, pipenv, etc)
• Django installed & project created (we'll use the project name cfehome)
• Jupyter installed at least in the virtual environment

Setup:

It's simple. Just copy django_for_jupyter.py next to your Jupyter notebook files (.ipynb).

init_django Via Project Name

First cell

from django_for_jupyter import init_django
init_django("cfehome")

Change cfehome to your Django project name.

init_django Using Environment Variables

In, .env:

DJANGO_PROJECT="cfehome"

Or on the CLI:

DJANGO_PROJECT="cfehome" jupyter notebook

First cell

from django_for_jupyter import init_django
init_django()

Change cfehome to your Django project name.

Using Django Models

Now that you've run init_django with no errors. You can import Django models:

Second Cell

from myapp.models import MyModel

MyModel.objects.all()

Simple enough right?