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Justin Duke 5 days ago

Adding imports to the Django shell

I was excited to finally remove from my file when 5.2 dropped because they added support for automatic model import. However, I found myself missing one other little escape hatch that exposed, which was the ability to import other arbitrary modules into the namespace. Django explains how to do bring in modules without a namespace , but I wanted to be able to inoculate my shell, since most of my modules follow a similar structure (exposing a single function). It took the bare minimum of sleuthing to figure out how to hack this in for myself, and now here I am to share that sleuthing with you. Behold, a code snippet that is hopefully self-explanatory:

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Justin Duke 1 weeks ago

September, 2025

The last of summer's grip finally loosened its hold this September, and Richmond began its annual transformation into something gentler and more contemplative. This morning's walk with Telly required a dusting-off of the closet-buried Patagonia puffer jacket; it's perfect for walks with Lucy, who has graduated into the Big Kid stroller making it easier than ever for her to point at every dog ("dah!"), every bird (also "dah!"), every passing leaf that dared to flutter in her line of sight. As you will read below, the big corporate milestone for me this month was sponsoring Djangocon and having our first offsite over the course of a single week. Sadly, our Seattle trip was once again canceled. Haley and Lucy both got a little sick, and we had to abandon course. It's weird to think this will be the first year since 2011 that we have not stepped foot in the Pacific Northwest. More than anything though, I learned this month for the first time how impossibly difficult it is to be away from your daughter for six days. It is something I hope I have to go through again for a very long time.

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Justin Duke 1 months ago

Django forever

Tomorrow, I am taking a very early morning flight to Chicago to attend DjangoCon US. Buttondown is sponsoring, less as an exercise in lead generation and more as an act of circuitous open source sponsorship, and perhaps "sponsorship" is not quite the right word compared to gratuity in the most literal sense

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