#25127: document how to define models in multiple modules
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Reporter: keturn | Owner: palmerev
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: assigned
Component: Documentation | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by keturn):
> You can then import classes directly from the `models` module as you
normally would.
Yes, if you import them to `models/__init__.py`, you can import them
elsewhere as `.models.Robot`, but `.models.robot.Robot` also works if you
want to take advantage of that structure you created when you split things
out into multiple models files.
(which for `robot.Robot` sounds redundant but maybe `from
.models.synthetics import Robot, Android` would be useful.)
This is the part I feel most unsure about what to include in the
documentation, because one hand I think the "There Should Be One Obvious
Way To Do" it principle applies here, so it seems disadvantageous to go in
to a lot of "you could import it this way **or** this way **or**..."
On the other hand, I can also imagine myself coming to this and thinking,
"wait, if I have to import things as if they were in `myapp.models`
anyway, then doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of splitting them
up?"
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