I am using pip, and once I tried virtualenv without understanding it and it worked. There's a kind of knowledge that I call "who's on first" knowledge: you know what comes next but you don't know why.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Alexis Bellido <ale...@ventanazul.com>wrote: > I'd suggest you decouple your apps from your projects. If you want to have > everything under the same tree you could, I don't do it that way though. > > You could have a tree like this: > > /home/user > --proj > ----proj (this contains settings.py in Django 1.4) > ----app1 > ----app2 > --app3 > > You already noticed that Django 1.4 has an inner proj directory which > contains settings.py but notice the outer directory doesn't need to be > called proj, you could rename it and everything will work. In fact, you > could change the inner directory name too if you update the corresponding > variables in settings.py (ROOT_URLCONF and WSGI_APPLICATION are the two > ones that come to mind). > > In my example tree I have app1 and app2 under the outer proj and at the > same level with the inner proj and I have app3 at the same level with the > outer proj but that doesn't matter much because as long as you have app1, > app2 and app3 in your PYTHONPATH you will able to do something like this: > > INSTALLED_APPS = ( > ... > ... > 'app1', > 'app2', > 'app3', > ) > > If you are not using virtualenv and pip yet you should, it helps a lot. > > Notice you don't need to include use proj (such as in 'proj.app1') and > this is the way to go if you want to reuse your apps in other projects. > > Good luck! > > On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:16:15 PM UTC-3, Bill Beal wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a Django project with apps that works OK on a Mac with Django 1.3 >> and Python 2.6, and I'm trying to move it to a Linux box with Django 1.4 >> and Python 2.7. I created an empty project 'proj' with apps 'app1', >> 'app2', 'app3' on the Linux system and carefully merged settings.py, >> urls.py etc. with the initial files that were created. When I run 'python >> manage.py runserver' it says "Error: no module named app3" if app3 is the >> last in the list of installed apps (see below), but if I swap app2 and app3 >> it claims app2 (now the last one in the list) is missing. The error >> message seems to be lying to me, and I don't know where to look for the >> error. In the settings.py file I have >> >> INSTALLED_APPS = ( >> 'django.contrib.auth', >> 'django.contrib.contenttypes', >> 'django.contrib.sessions', >> 'django.contrib.sites', >> 'django.contrib.messages', >> 'django.contrib.staticfiles', >> # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin: >> 'django.contrib.admin', >> # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation: >> 'django.contrib.admindocs', >> 'django.django-adminfiles', >> 'proj.app1', >> 'proj.app2', >> 'proj.app3', >> ) >> >> I've looked around for anything on "Error: No module named xxx", but >> haven't found any that seem to relate to this behavior. Has anyone seen >> this kind of error dependent on the order of the apps? Is there any way I >> can force a more informative error? I tried adding an empty module name at >> the end, and it gave me an error trace, but I couldn't figure out anything >> from it. My directory tree looks like this: >> >> proj/ >> manage.py >> proj/proj/ >> __init__.py >> settings.py >> urls.py >> wsgi.py >> proj/app1/ >> __init__.py >> forms.py >> models.py >> tests.py >> views.py >> proj/app2/ >> __init__.py >> forms.py >> models.py >> tests.py >> views.py >> proj/app3/ >> __init__.py >> forms.py >> models.py >> tests.py >> views.py >> proj/templates/ >> . . . >> >> Django 1.4 seems to have a second proj directory under the first level >> proj directory. I didn't see this in 1.3. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/pdq0xqjRk_QJ. > > To post to this group, send email to django-users@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-users@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.
