How to drop a table (sqlite3) in Django==2.1? - django

Question

I created the following models in my app events :
from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone
from django.urls import reverse
class EventType(models.Model):
type_of_event = models.CharField(max_length=100, unique=True)
def __str__(self):
return self.type_of_event
class Event(models.Model):
type_of_event = models.ForeignKey(EventType, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
description = models.TextField()
event_date = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now())
venue = models.CharField(max_length=200)
entry_fee = models.FloatField()
def __str__(self):
return self.name
Due to some errors and changes, I created and deleted the migration file many times. Now, the makemigrations command works but when I try to migrate the models using : python manage.py migrate , it shows the following error:
File "/home/anirudh/.local/share/virtualenvs/Amrita-event-manager-DHqKHtGE/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 294, in execute
return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query)
django.db.utils.OperationalError: table "events_event" already exists
I am using django version 2.1 along with sqlite3.
Most questions similar to this were too old and incompatible to the version I am using now.

Answer 1

First of all, make a backup of the file db.sqlite3
You could use dbshell, which runs the command-line client for the database engine
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-dbshell
python manage.py dbshell
list all tables
sqlite> .table
delete table
sqlite> DROP TABLE <table>;