Background:
When I run the django-admin.py loaddata example.json I get this error. "ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined." I understand the problem. It needs the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to be able to access the database to do this import. I've had this problem before and I've managed to side step it thus far.
In reading the docs, I discovered that the manage.py is a wrapper for django-admin.py; it puts the project on the sys.path and sets the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment. Woot! Whoa! I know how to fix my problem.
Soo...
Why do the Django documentation code examples use django-admin.py instead of manage.py when demonstrating subcommands such as loaddata and dumpdata?