Change PyCharm Community Python Console to PyCharm Professional Django Console (Django Shell)

community_to_shell.py

# Change the run script on `settings> Build Execution and Deployment > Console > Python Console` to
# hoping you have your settings at project/project/settings.py (if not, change accordingly;)
import os,sys,django;sys.path.extend([WORKING_DIR_AND_PYTHON_PATHS])
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = WORKING_DIR_AND_PYTHON_PATHS.split('/')[-1]+'.settings'
print('Python {0} on {1} using {2} as settings'.format(sys.version, sys.platform, os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE']))
django.setup()

Don;t know if this has changed, but in my version of pycharm (2019.1.2) WORKING_DIR_AND_PYTHON_PATHS gets string replaced as a sort of pre-processor operation with a tuple, so that .split() call doesn't work as intended.

As an exmaple, if its value is '/working/dir', '/python/path' then you'll end up with a tuple ('/working/dir', 'path.settings') assigned to that environment variable - which throws an error TypeError: str expected, not tuple.

Also, even if the split and string operation worked as intended, it relies on the project's working directory being that last thing in the list. which is not necessarily the case.

I found it easier just to explicity type in the project name to the console, setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to equal '<project_name>.settings'.

Other than that, this works fine.