Explain the process of creating custom management commands in Django.

Instruction: Describe how to create and use custom management commands in a Django project.

Context: This question tests the candidate's familiarity with Django's command-line utilities and their capability to extend functionality with custom commands.

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Place a command module in an installed app's management/commands/ package, with the necessary package initialization files. The filename becomes the command name. Define a Command subclass of BaseCommand, add arguments, and perform the work in handle().

For an articles app with an Article.published Boolean, this complete read-only command belongs in articles/management/commands/article_count.py:...

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