Actually it depends on your PYTHONPATH. syncdb scans all modules from INSTALLED_APPS looking for models.py in them to populate database. So if you access you Entity model (for example at views.py) as from directory.models import Entity then add 'directory' to INSTALLED_APPS.
On Jun 26, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > No; that sounds like the issue then? > > If my project directory is named "directory", and I want to access the > "Entity" model in "models.py", what do I add to INSTALLED_APPS? I'm guessing > something like "directory", but I briefly searched online and couldn't tell. > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Oleg Lomaka <oleg.lom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Did you add your application to INSTALLED_APPS before running syncdb? > > On Jun 26, 2010, at 12:09 AM, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > > > P.S. Renaming the (SQLite) database file and running syncdb again produces > > (basically) the same behavior. I had to do some initialization things > > again, but outside of that I got equivalent behavior to what I pasted below. > > > > What I am trying to do is create a few instances of the Entity model > > defined in my [directory/]models.py. So far I have managed to get them to > > show up as an option to manage in the admin interface, but not yet to save > > one. > > > > Should it be looking for directory_models_entity instead of > > directory_entity? "entity" seems not to be populated; from the command line > > sqlite3: > > > > sqlite> .tables > > auth_group auth_user_user_permissions > > auth_group_permissions django_admin_log > > auth_message django_content_type > > auth_permission django_session > > auth_user django_site > > auth_user_groups > > > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Hayward > > <christos.jonathan.hayw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I received the error below from the admin interface; I thought it was > > because I needed to run a syncdb, but stopping the server, running a > > syncdb, and restarting has generated the same error: > > > > OperationalError at /admin/directory/entity/ > > no such table: directory_entity > > Request Method: GET > > Request URL: http://linux:8000/admin/directory/entity/ > > Exception Type: OperationalError > > Exception Value: > > no such table: directory_entity > > Exception Location: > > /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py in execute, > > line 193 > > Python Executable: /usr/bin/python > > Python Version: 2.6.5 > > Python Path: ['/home/jonathan/directory', > > '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pip-0.6.3-py2.6.egg', > > '/home/jonathan/store/src/satchmo/satchmo/apps', > > '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_threaded_multihost-1.3_3-py2.6.egg', > > > > '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_signals_ahoy-0.1_1-py2.6.egg', > > '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_tagging-0.3.1-py2.6.egg', > > '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', > > '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', > > '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', > > '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL', > > '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10', > > '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', > > '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0', > > '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages'] > > Server time: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:56:26 -0500 > > > > I have an Entity class/model defined in my models.py and want to manually > > create some dummy data in the table. Any suggestions? > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > > > -- > → Jonathan Hayward, christos.jonathan.hayw...@gmail.com > → An Orthodox Christian author: theology, literature, et cetera. > → My award-winning collection is available for free reading online: > ☩ I invite you to visit my main site at http://JonathansCorner.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
