thanks mike & jeff. this very much solves my problem. regards, patrick
On 6 Feb., 06:14, newspaper-django-lackey <jeff.t.lind...@gmail.com> wrote: > Naming conflicts are a consistent issue brought up on the boards. I've > had issues several times where an app name conflicted with a core > Python library, Pluggable, or library extension. Generally the process > I follow for apps, both personally created and pluggable, is to put > them not directly on the python path but one layer off then modify the > import statements of the app to deal with the extra layer. This > affords me the option to specify which parent folder my app is in > therefore separating it from other folders that might have the same > name. For instance All of my personal apps might be in the mysite > folder while pluggables are kept in the addons folder. These two > folders are added to the PYTHONPATH either by sys or through wsgi. > Imports of a view within those folders would be mysite.user.views > rather than user.views limiting the possibility for conflict. There > are times when this isn't worth the trouble because a very complicated > pluggable wants to be on the path and changing all of the import > statements feels like a burden, but I've also spent hours trying to > get a dateutil library to work only to find out that there is a naming > conflict with another library, which hides the one I want. > > hope this helps. > > jeff > > On Feb 4, 3:17 am, patrickk <sehmasch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > our hosting-provide told me that I should rename my django-app "user" > > to something else, because there´s a python-module "user" and with > > using user.urls (within our url configuration), we do get an error. > > my question is, if this is the correct way to solve this problem. so > > far, I´ve never noticed that there are restrictions to django app- > > names (and I guess there aren´t). > > we didn´t have this problem with our previous hosting-provider and > > before I´m going to rename my app (for several websites), I´d like to > > know if the problem is caused by the "wrong" app-name or if it´s a > > server setup problem. > > > regards, > > patrick > > -- 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.
