Dependencies

django-data-seed keeps its runtime footprint deliberately small: installing it pulls in three packages and nothing else.

Runtime dependencies

Package	Version	Why it's here
Django	>=4.0	The framework the app plugs into.
Mimesis	>=11	The data generator — fast, typed, locale-aware. Replaces Faker (see Faker vs Mimesis).
rich	>=13	The animated CLI: pre-flight checklist, progress dashboard, summary tables.

That's it — no pandas, no numpy, no ML libraries. The statistical realism (distributions, temporal shapes) is built on the Python standard library.

Optional extras

Database drivers and dev tooling are optional, so you only install what you use:

pip install django-data-seed              # core (SQLite works out of the box)
pip install django-data-seed[postgres]    # psycopg
pip install django-data-seed[mysql]       # mysqlclient (MySQL & MariaDB)
pip install django-data-seed[mssql]       # mssql-django
pip install django-data-seed[oracle]      # oracledb
pip install django-data-seed[dev]         # pytest, pytest-django, ruff, mypy, Pillow, …
pip install django-data-seed[docs]        # mkdocs-material (to build these docs)

Extra	Adds
postgres	psycopg[binary]>=3.1
mysql	mysqlclient>=2.1 (MySQL and MariaDB)
mssql	mssql-django>=1.3
oracle	oracledb>=1.4
dev	test + lint toolchain, including Pillow for ImageField
docs	mkdocs-material for building the documentation site

ImageField

If your models use ImageField, install Pillow — Django requires it for image fields (and the image provider uses it to write a real 1×1 PNG). It ships in the dev extra, or pip install Pillow.