Install Django Application so It's Available on Python Path

Question

I have a django application structured like this...

app_foo
  __init__.py
  urls.py
  views.py
  models.py
  bar_app
    __init__.py
    ...
  bar_app...

By using distutils, I can get the application to install into the python path under the "app_foo" module name.

However, any of the code inside of the "bar_app" python files which refers to things inside the django app relatively does not work when executed from the python path. For example,

from bar_app.views import stuff

I know that I can go through the app and change all the references to be absolute. For example,

from app_foo.bar_app.views import stuff

My question:

Is there anyway I can get all of the apps inside "app_foo" to also be on the python path?

Conceptually this would be similar to saying from app_foo import * for the entire path.

Yuji 'Tomita' Tomita · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-26 16:16:05Z

1

You can do

from .bar_app.views import stuff

http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.5.html#pep-328-absolute-and-relative-imports

answered Jan 26, 2012 at 16:16

Yuji 'Tomita' Tomita

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Keith Entzeroth Over a year ago

this is definitely better than specifying app name. i'll do this if there's not a way to get them all on the path

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