Question

I’m trying to split admin.py of a Django project into separate files but failed.

There’s no information I can find from google about how to split it, so I have to try myself. Here’s what I tried:

1. make a directory named separated_admins and put an empty __init__.py in it

2. create files in separated_admins directory, something like this:

   # file my_app/seperated_admins/Some_Model_admin.py
   
   from my_app.models import Some_Model
   from django.contrib import admin
   
   admin.site.register(Some_Model)
   

3. in admin.py, I added lines like:

   from my_app.seperated_admins import *
   

But I didn’t see Some_Model in my admin site. Is my solution right? How can I fix this?

Answer 1

The admin.py is just a python module. So the right way of splitting it would be as follows:

• Create a folder called admins instead of admin.py file
• Use multiple files within the admin folder, like your some_model_admin.py
• Create a __init__.py in the admins folder and import * all the files into it.
• You might also want to include an __all__ to provide a clean interface.