Django 1.9 deprecation warnings app_label

Question

I\'ve just updated to Django v1.8, and testing my local setup before updating my project and I\'ve had a deprecation warning that I\'ve never seen before, nor does it make a

Answer 1

The Django 1.9 way of handling this and giving your app a nice name in the admin is to do the following:

Add a file in your app named apps.py and add the following to it:

#apps.py
from django.apps import AppConfig


class YourAppNameAppConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'yourappname'
    verbose_name = 'Your App Name Looking Right'

Then, in your app's __init__.py file, add the following:

#__init__.py    
default_app_config = 'youappname.apps.YourAppNameAppConfig'