Local developing means also that you don’t have access to the production database. It’s often necessary to have some data in the database before you can do any development at all. Django provides you a way for setting basic initial data automatically after syncdb-command, and it also helps you move all your data across different databases via fixtures.
A fixture is a collection of data that Django knows how to import into a database. You can export your whole production (Django-)database (or just one app) to a fixture with dumpdata-command. You can then move this fixture to your local machine and import it with loaddata. This way you can easily make copies of your production database and use them in your local development.
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