is the Django management command executed in a separate process?

Question

Django has many management commands. In addition, we can write our own commands.

What happens after I make a shell call python manage.py XXX? Will the code be executed in a process that launched from the shell? Or the shell process just communicates with the main Django process that executes the command?

Answer 1

The shell starts a new process to run the Python interpreter. The Python interpreter reads manage.py and executes it directly. There's no such thing as "the main Django process".