Re: syncdb does not find model, but it does in the shell

I'm pretty sure you can't have a folder named models and that your models file needs to be called models.py -- unless you use some sort of a 'hack' to work around it. I remember seeing a bug posted about this issue which was pretty easily google-able. I just don't remember the bug number off hand, sorry. Basically, it's just the way that Django finds your models when running syncdb and the ORM.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,


as the title says, in a new project (django trunk), my model isn't found by syncdb.
However, when I run a shell_plus (I use django extensions), then I can import it without a problem.
So from sql.models.mytestmodel import MyTestModel works.
syncdb doens't produce any errors, it just doesn't find the model.

I usually split my models in seperate files and import them in the __init__.py file in the same
directory as the models. The command is the same as described above.

from sql.models.mytestmodel import MyTestModel

It's also the first time I am laying out my project in a different way. My project layout looks like this.
In the project directory, I have a directory apps where the apps of the project are placed.
Then inside the sql app, I have a forms, models and views directory.
In the models directory I have the __init__.py with the aformetioned import line.

adminsql
├── adminsql
│   ├── apps
│   │   └── sql
│   │       ├── forms
│   │       ├── models
│   │       │   ├── __init__.py
│   │       │   ├── mytestmodel.py
│   │       ├── tests.py
│   │       ├── urls.py
│   │       └── views
│   │           ├── __init__.py
│   │           ├── views_test.py
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── settings_dev.py
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── templates
│   │   ├── adminsql
│   │   └── sql
│   │       └── test.html
│   ├── urls.py
│   ├── wsgi.py
├── deploy
├── docs
├── logs
├── manage.py
├── media
├── README
├── static

The models is nothing special as this project is a test app to port my multiprocess program to Django
with celery.

from django.db import models
class MyTestModel(models.Model):
   field1=models.CharField(max_length=12)
   field2=models.CharField(max_length=12)

In my settings.py:
   ...
   # Add apps to the path, so the sql app is found
   project_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
   app_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(project_path,"apps"))
   sys.path.append(app_path)
   ...
   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'sql',
   )

All works, I can run the code in a browser, only the part fails where a result is written to the db
because of course the model related table doesn't exist.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Benedict

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