Django workflow when modifying models frequently?

Question

as I usually don't do the up front design of my models in Django projects I end up modifying the models a lot and thus deleting my test database every time (because "syncdb" won't ever alter the tables automatically for you). Below lies my workflow and I'd like to hear about yours. Any thoughts welcome..

1. Modify the model.
2. Delete the test database. (always a simple sqlite database for me.)
3. Run "syncdb".
4. Generate some test data via code.
5. goto 1.

A secondary question regarding this.. In case your workflow is like above, how do you execute the 4. step? Do you generate the test data manually or is there a proper hook point in Django apps where you can inject the test-data-generating-code at server startup?\

TIA.

Answer 1

Steps 2 & 3 can be done in one step:

manage.py reset appname

Step 4 is most easily managed, from my understanding, by using fixtures