Django: Why do some model fields clash with each other?

Question

I want to create an object that contains 2 links to Users. For example:

class GameClaim(models.Model):
    target = models.ForeignKey(User)
    claimer = mod         


        

Answer 1

I seem to come across this occasionally when I add a submodule as an application to a django project, for example given the following structure:

myapp/
myapp/module/
myapp/module/models.py

If I add the following to INSTALLED_APPS:

'myapp',
'myapp.module',

Django seems to process the myapp.mymodule models.py file twice and throws the above error. This can be resolved by not including the main module in the INSTALLED_APPS list:

'myapp.module',

Including the myapp instead of myapp.module causes all the database tables to be created with incorrect names, so this seems to be the correct way to do it.

I came across this post while looking for a solution to this problem so figured I'd put this here :)