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Asked: 2026-06-01T03:10:29+00:00

Developing a project in Django with my IDE setup as Eclipse with PyDev. The

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Developing a project in Django with my IDE setup as Eclipse with PyDev. The following import statement:

from polls.models import Poll, Choice

works when running the project from the command line via:

python manage.py runserver

However, built in error-checking with Eclipse fails to find polls.models (“unresolved import Port”). I can fix this by adding the project name before the class and then running this. That is, make the import statement:

from projectName.polls.models import Poll, Choice

The issue is that I’m collaborating on the project and can’t do this.

Question is: Is there a way to have Eclipse auto-detect or assume the projectName from the import statement?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using projectName on import statements is not a good idea.

    When working with django/python start to use virtualenv. Especially when working with eclipse/pydev. You can than configure a new interpreter for every virtualenv. Just add the virtualenv to the list of interpreters under “Preferences > PyDev > Interpreter – Python” and be sure to add your djangoproject root to the PYTHONPATH on the same preferences page.

    This is essentially what django does for you when running from the command line.

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