django shared library/classes

Question

Am new to django and was looking for advice where to place my shared library. Am planning on creating classes that I want to use across all my apps within the project. Where wou

Answer 1

We usually set our projects up like this:

/site/
    __init__.py
    manage.py
    settings.py
    urls.py
    /apps/
        __init__.py
        /appA/
            __init__.py
        /appB/
            __init__.py
    /lib/
        __init__.py
        /django-lib/
            __init__.py
        /shared-lib/
            __init__.py

Just make sure your site directory is on your python path:

import sys
sys.path.append('/path/to/site/')

Also, ensure that an init.py exists in site, apps, and lib so they can be treated as modules using dot notation imports (import site.lib.shared-lib)

Edit:

In answer to your question regarding your python path, it all has to do with where your 'manage.py' or equivalent file resides. If it is under the /site/ directory (next to apps and lib) then the PYTHONPATH should be fine.

You need to make sure that every directory contains an empty file called __init__.py. This tells Python to treat that directory as a module. See the new and improved ASCII art above.