Async Support in Django Shell

Based on the available Django 5.1 documentation, there is no specific mention of plans to add native async support to the Django shell. While Django has been expanding its asynchronous capabilities since version 3.1 with support for:

• Asynchronous views
• Asynchronous middleware
• Asynchronous tests and test client
• Asynchronous ORM queries (with some limitations)

The interactive Django shell (python manage.py shell) doesn't currently have built-in support for directly using await statements like Python's python -m asyncio shell provides.

Current Workarounds

When testing async code in the Django shell, you would need to use workarounds such as:

1. Creating small synchronous wrapper functions that use asyncio.run() to execute your async code
2. Using the asgiref.sync utilities like sync_to_async() and async_to_sync() to bridge between sync and async code

Feasibility

It would be technically feasible to implement async support in the Django shell, as it would likely involve integrating with Python's existing async REPL capabilities. However, since the documentation doesn't mention any specific plans for this feature, it's unclear if or when it might be implemented.

If you need to test async Django code interactively, you might consider creating a custom management command that launches an async-capable shell specifically configured for Django, though this would require additional development work.