how to modify/customize apps in pinax ecosystem

[Tom Lesters]

hi all,

I have a question about how to make a small change in the apps views.py file

for example , I installed idios app when creating pinax starter projects

http://pinaxproject.com/ecosystem/9/

it installed idios into python2.6/site-packages/idios dir,

now I need to make a small change, adding the following line(just for purpose of explaining this question)

@login_required

to one of the functions defined in idios/views.py

The way I can think of is I can copy all the source .py files into my project/apps dir, then I can make whatever changes I want,

but seems that's against the principle of using those apps as library.

is there a better way of doing that?

or it's just the nature of any django apps:

if you need to modify anything in the urls.py ,views.py or models.py,

you just grab the source and make is as a local project app?

thanks,

Tom