Django Installed Apps Location

Question

I am an experienced PHP programmer using Django for the first time, and I think it is incredible!

I have a project that has a lot of apps, so I wanted to group them

Answer 1

Make sure that the '__init__.py' file is in your apps directory, if it's not there it won't be recognized as part of the package.

So each of the folders here should have '__init__.py' file in it. (empty is fine).

/project/
/project/apps/
/project/apps/app1/
/project/apps/app2

Then as long as your root 'module' folder is in your PYTHONPATH you'll be able to import from your apps.

Here's the documentation regarding the python search path for your reading pleasure:

http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#modifying-python-s-search-path

And a nice simple explanation of what __init__.py file is for:

http://effbot.org/pyfaq/what-is-init-py-used-for.htm