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.
