How do I include a Django app in my PYTHONPATH?

I want to be able to import things from applications in my project without referring to my project name.

My folder structure is like so; I have a project called djangoproject1, and inside I have a folder called apps, and then I have my individual apps in that folder.

djangoproject1, apps, and all my applications have an empty "__init__.py" file in them.

In my settings.py file I have the following code:

import os
import sys
PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirnam开发者_高级运维e(__file__)
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "apps"))

I've tried adding my apps to INSTALLED_APPS several ways:

'djangoproject1.apps.app1', 'djangoproject1.apps.app2',

or

'apps.app1', 'apps.app2',

or

'app1', 'app2',

but nothing works. Whenever I try to do:

from app1 import *

I got an unresolved import error. I'm using the latest versions of eclipse and django

Ok, so I got it to work by adding the apps folder to the PYTHONPATH through eclipse under Project Properties. Is this eclipse only though? I'm not sure how this will work when I try and deploy the site. What do you guys think?

The statement sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "apps")) looks OK to me. Following this you only need to add app1 to INSTALLED_APPS and everything should work. But apparently they are not working.

Try the following: 1. Print your sys.path and verify that your project's app directory is in the list. 2. Double check that your have an __init__.py inside your apps folder.

Update

OK. Now can you fire up Django shell and try importing again? If it fails, please post the stack trace here.

You must include apps directory to PYTHONPATH. Be sure that in apps directory don't have __init__.py, because it become a package instead of "simple directory". Than, include in settings.py

app1, app2, app3

Use

from app1 import *