Django: Web Development with Python

Migrations with South

South is a very useful extension of Django. It facilitates the migration of the database when changing fields. It also keeps a history of the changes in the structure of the database.

We talk about it now because it must be installed before the creation of the database to work correctly.

Django 1.7 incorporates a migration system. You will not need to use South anymore to make the migration of a Django application. You can find more information about the migration systems integrated into Django 1.7 at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/.

Installing South

To install South, we use the pip command. We have already used it to install Django. To do this, run the following command:

pip install South

Before actually ...