Question

In Django, is it possible to place forms for models in the admin interface into different files per app? The same as can be done for model files.

E.g. instead of:

app/admin.py

  class PersonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    [...]

  class CarAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin)

    [...]

I’d have

app/admin/personadmin.py

  class PersonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    [...]

app/admin/caradmin.py

  class CarAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin)

    [...]

I would like to do this without changing Django code.

It’s just for overview, I know it doesn’t open up new possibilies for the functioning of the site.

Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

Have you tried creating an __init__.py file under the admin directory?

The contents would look like:

from personadmin import PersonAdmin
from caradmin import CarAdmin

Just follow the instructions you linked to, but replace “models” with “admin”. Try it and see if it works. I’d be surprised if it doesn’t.