[nerdponx]

With credit to the original poster, they might be complaining about the fact that Django is a monolithic framework and you can't really use Django code without spinning up the i/o portion. Which is legitimate criticism, but frankly if that's what you need then you shouldn't be using Django.

[heavenlyblue]

If by I/O you mean web i/o then Django provides a perfectly functional management utility interface accessible through cli.

If, however by i/o you mean the database portion of it then Django works without database configuration, too.