django-rename-app

A Django Management Command to rename existing Django Applications.

Installation

pip install django-rename-app.

Add to your Django settings.py INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_rename_app',
    ...
]

Usage

python manage.py rename_app <old_app_name> <new_app_name>

For full detailed instructions see https://odwyer.software/blog/how-to-rename-an-existing-django-application

Release History

0.1.7 (2023-11-08)

• Fixes for Python 3.7+.

0.1.6 (2023-03-05)

• Fix for rename sequences, indexes, constraints and M2M tables.

0.1.5 (2022-11-19)

• Fix NameError.

0.1.4 (2022-11-17)

• Fix for DB tables with uppercase chars.
• Get content_type name from the database instead of making assumption.

0.1.3 (2021-03-29)

• Handle table name truncation as Django does.

0.1.2 (2020-06-02)

• When ran multiple times at the same time, Exception would raise from rename queries. Catch and log this instead of crashing.

0.1.1 (2020-06-01)

• Documentation updates.

0.1.0 (2020-06-01)

• Initial release.