Question

I would like to know what is the best import strategy within django reusable applications.

Say I have an application called usefulapp. Inside my app, I will need to access, say, the models. Should I use an explicit import as:

import usefulapp.models

or simply, since I am inside this very app, I could use:

import models

Which one is recommended?

Are there disadvantages of using the second approach?

Answer 1

The second approach assumes that . is in sys.path before any other directories that may contain a models module. There is no requirement that . be in it at all, so importing either via relative imports or via the app is best.