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I am confused on this part of the Django tutorial . It says something

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I am confused on this part of the Django tutorial. It says something like copying the whole admin templates to dbe/templates, but what is the full path should be and what folders am I suppose to be creating?

I am running Mac OS X and my todo app is located at /Users/hobbes3/Sites/mysite/todo/ and my full Django path is /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packges/django/.

I also placed my templates at /Users/hobbes3/Sites/myDjango/templates. Inside this folder I have admin/base_site.html and polls/detail.html, polls/index.html, and polls/results.html. The poll app was created from the official Django tutorial. My copy of the poll app works fine.

The error I get when I run the server with python manage.py runserver and I go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ is

ImportError at /admin/

No module named dbe.todo.models

Request Method:     GET
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
Django Version:     1.3.1
Exception Type:     ImportError
Exception Value:    

No module named dbe.todo.models

Exception Location:     /Users/hobbes3/Sites/mysite/todo/admin.py in <module>, line 1
Python Executable:  /usr/local/bin/python
Python Version:     2.7.2
Python Path:    

['/Users/hobbes3/Sites/mysite',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.4-x86_64.egg',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python27.zip',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/plat-mac',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info']

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  1. Editorial Team

    For starters, you should follow the official tutorial: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/

    The tutorial you’re following looks pretty awful (sorry :/)

    I suspect that dbe is the project name of this guy. When he shows:

    cp -r django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/ dbe/templates/

    It seems that he has django and the project at the same level. So his dbe == your mysite.

    Anyhow, there is no need to prefix app modules with the project module name, this is ridiculous – hard coding the project name in the apps. This totally defeats the purpose of reusable apps. Run this:

    find /path/to/your/project -type f | xargs sed -i -e s/dbe.//g

    This command will remove ‘dbe.’ from everywhere in your code. This tutorial code is so horrible I wonder why you even bother following it …

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