Question

I am just getting this django app (also an inexperienced python user) running and wanted to be able to access the models.

I have the following:

import sys, os
sys.path.append('/Users/jx/dev/arc/django/second/')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
from django.db import models
from testproject.models import Location
loc=Location.objects.get(name='Joes')

print loc.name

but get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "zz.py", line 6, in <module>
    from testproject.models import Location
ImportError: No module named testproject.models

Is there a way I can determine whether it is loading the settings.py correctly? Or is there an obvious syntax issue? Should the PYTHONPATH reflect the locations for the models (it currently doesn’t if print os.environ)?

thx

Answer 1

1. Make sure you have added the folder containing testproject folder to sys.path.
   For example if you have the following structure /foo/bar/testproject/models.py then you should add /foo/bar to sys.path
2. Make sure the testproject folder has a __init__.py file in it (which can be empty).