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

Your top-level urls.py (also named in your settings.py) must be able to use a simple "import" statement to get your applications.

Does import project.apps.app1.urls work? If not, then your PYTHONPATH isn't set up properly, or you didn't install your project in Python's site-packages directory.

I suggest using the PYTHONPATH environment variable, instead of installing into site-packages. Django applications (to me, anyway) seem easier to manage when outside site-packages.

We do the following:

• Django projects go in /opt/project/.

• PYTHONPATH includes /opt/project.

• Our settings.py uses apps.this and apps.that (note that the project part of the name is part of the PYTHONPATH, not part of the import.