On 30 nov, 07:01, Victor Hooi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I had an application with a fairly large models.py file, which I split > up into separate apps to make it easier to manage.
This won't address your problem but FWIW, you don't have to use separate apps just to split a models.py file - you can turn it into a models package, with the package's __init__.py used as a "facade" for the submodules (usual pythonic solution). But anyway: > Two of the apps are called "conferences" and "people", each with their > own models.py. > > These two are fairly tightly entwined, they each refer to each other. If both models really depend that much on each other then they ought te live in a same module. Or perhaps there's room for improvement in your design but you don't give enough context. (snip typical circular deps symptom) > I'm not sure why this is happening - from the looks of it, it's > opening up conferences/models.py, then importing people.models.Person > from there, which inside of that tries to import Conference In Python almost everything happens at runtime. The import, class and def statements are executable statements, and they are executed - with every other top-level statement - when the module is first loaded. > Or is there a better way of creating multiple apps that all share > models? Put the interdependent models in a same app. The you can have other apps using these models too as long as there's no circular dependencies. A Django app doesn't have to define models or views or urls or whatever - you can have one app with models, and another vwith views and forms and whatnot depending on the first app's models. > The main reason I split it up was for logically separating all > the different models, they still all need to import/relate to each > other. Once again: if your models are tightly coupled, they ought to live in a same module. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
