Django-loading

PLEASE USE djapps instead: https://github.com/RichardOfWard/djapps

Django-loading allows you to load your django apps by their app name rather than by the module path. This is particularly useful if you don't know where modules will be installed or if you plan to allow overriding of your apps (eg a user replaces your foo.bar app with myfoo.bar).

Usage

If you have a django app called bar in a package called foo (such that you would add foo.bar to your INSTALLED_APPS) then you can get hold of bar without knowing its full module path:

import loading.apps.bar

Django-loading hooks into python's regular import mechanism so all the normal ways to import things will work:

from loading.apps.bar import models
from loading.apps.bar.models import MyModel as ThisIsMyModel

Your app names in a django project should all be unqiue, django-loading won't work if they are not (but django won't like that either).

Installation

Use your favorite install method, for example:

$ pip install django-loading

You do not need to add django-loading to your INSTALLED_APPS, just start using it.