Awesome, thanks, I love python but I am not (yet) skilled at the art of
incantation.
The snippet above: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1838/
did have some incantation but the post was fairly old in terms of
django/python's history.
I can't tell one incantation from another but I can tell a django app that
fails to sync from one that does.
If anybody has trouble with this kind of django project structure,
Mike's incantation works just right, I don't want to be as bold as to say
the one in the snippet
doesn't work, but I couldn't get it to work.
if its not already clear heres my set up:
#my_project
# manage.py
# settings.py
# myapp/
# models/# __init__.py# models1.py#
models2.py
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in __init__.py:
# incantation
from __future__ import absolute_import
from .models1 import ModelOne
from .models2 import ModelTwo
------------------------------------------------------
in models1.py:
from myapp.models import Model2
------------------------------------------------------
in models2.py:
from myapp.models import Model1
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in admin.py:
from my_app.models import Model1, Model2
I also took a precaution that I'm not sure was required:
I made sure Django knew which app to put all my Model1 & Model2 in
by defining a Meta property like this:
class Meta:
app_label = 'myapp'
On Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:43:46 AM UTC-4, Doug S wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use multiple files for my models in a single app.
> I found a nice solution on Django Snippets <http://djangosnippets.org/>:
> http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1838/
> but I'm not able to get it to work.
> The docs assume that I know more than I do about how this solution works.
> Its involves using a models folder for the app like this:
>
> # myapp/# models/# __init__.py# models1.py# models2.py
>
>
> and then including an __init__.py file in the folder to make it a package
>
> this file also contains this code:
>
> import django.db.models import sys
> appname = "myapp"from models1 import *from models2 import *
> __all__ = []
> for decl in globals().values():
> try:
> if decl.__module__.startswith(__name__) and issubclass(decl,
> django.db.models.Model):
> decl._meta.db_table = decl._meta.db_table.replace('models', appname)
> decl._meta.app_label = appname
> __all__.append(decl.__name__)
> django.db.models.loading.register_models(appname, decl)
> except:
> pass
>
> I don't understand this code, but hopefully I don't have to.
>
> I just want to be able to import my individual model modules:
>
> models1.py & models2.py
>
> from my views and admin.py
>
> the import statements are not included in the snippet
>
> and I've tried what seems reasonable and keep getting errors importing the
> modules saying they don't exist
>
> I would expect you do something like
>
> import myapp.models.model1
>
> &
>
> import myapp.models.model2*
> *
>
> but this doesn't work.
>
> maybe I don't understand the magic in the __init__.py file
>
> or I'm just being plain stupid.
>
> Can someone point me toward getting this solution working with my imports?
>
>
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