South offers its own signals, if you want to write code which executes before or after migrations. They’re available from south.signals.
Sent just before South starts running migrations for an app.
Provides one argument, app, a string containing the app’s label.
Sent just after South successfully finishes running migrations for an app. Note that if the migrations fail in the middle of executing, this will not get called.
Provides one argument, app, a string containing the app’s label.
Sent just after South successfully runs a single migration file; can easily be sent multiple times in one run of South, possibly hundreds of times if you have hundreds of migrations, and are doing a fresh install.
Provides three arguments, app, a string containing the app’s label, migration, a string containing the name of the migration file without the file extension, and method, which is either "forwards" or "backwards".