How to run scripts outside views.py?

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I have a very trivial question so please forgive me.
Until this time I always worked in the views.py files. Now I made a script called anything.py and I like to run it.

In this file there is nothing special just a send_mail function. If I run the server it does nothing. If I try to use the script in the views.py it works fine.

What should I do?

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When do you want it to run?

  • Does it run on a schedule?

  • Does it run based on an event in the system?

  • Does it run based on an event outside the system?

  • Does it run completely outside the context of the server?

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Hi Ken! Thank you for your answer.
My goal is to send monthly scheduled emails for specific users with crontab or with schedule (GitHub - dbader/schedule: Python job scheduling for humans.) but I’m stuck in the first step. I never did something like this so just like to be more familiar how these tasks go.

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I generally recommend something like this be created as a Django custom management command. You would then run this using the “manage.py” script, the same way you would run any other management command.