The right place to keep my signals.py file in a Django project

Question

Based on Django\'s documentation I was reading, it seems like signals.py in the app folder is a good place to start with, but the problem I\'m facing is that wh

Answer 1

This only applies if you have your signals in a separate signals.py file

In completely agree with the answer of @EricMarcos but it should be stated that the django docs explicitly advice not to use the default_app_config variable (although it is not wrong). For current versions, correct way would be:

my_app/apps.py

from django.apps import AppConfig

class MyAppConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'my_app'

    def ready(self):
        import my_app.signals

settings.py

(Make sure you don't just have your app name in installed apps but instead the relative path to your AppConfig)

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'my_app.apps.MyAppConfig',
    # ...
]