I don't understand this error - Django 1.9

[Becka R.]

Hi, 

I'm building a pretty basic CRUD application for a community I'm part of.   I'm now getting "ImportError: No module named [myappname]" when I run the server, and an operational error in the admin. 

I looked at the documentation, and followed the steps, but I'm not doing something correctly.  I'd like to 1) fix this, and 2) propose some changes to the docs to clarify this issue. 

My project is called "ladynerds" (We're a professional association for a bunch of women software engineers). 

Here's the documentation I'm following:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/applications/

I'm using Django 1.9

Here's my file structure:

/ladynerds   (project file)

 /ladynerds  (app)

  __init__.py

  models.py

  forms.py

  settings.py

  urls.py

  views.py

  wsgi.py

  /static

  /templates

  

Here's what I put into ladynerds/__init__.py:

import apps

default_app_config = 'LadyNerds.apps.LadyNerdsConfig'

I've also tried using 'ladynerds.apps.LadyNerdsConfig'

Here's what I put into ladynerds/apps.py:

from django.apps import AppConfig

class LadyNerdsConfig(AppConfig):

name = "LadyNerds"

verbose_name = "LadyNerds"

Here's my settings.py INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = (

    'ladynerds.apps.LadyNerdsConfig',

    'django.contrib.admin',

    'django.contrib.auth',

    'django.contrib.contenttypes',

    'django.contrib.sessions',

    'django.contrib.messages',

    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

    'ladynerds'

)

I'm getting:  ImportError: No module named LadyNerds

What am I missing?

And, thanks. 

Becka

[Alex Heyden]

If you get longer stacktraces back, those might help in identifying what exactly is going wrong.

As a first pass cleanup, try:

* remove 'ladynerds' from the bottom of INSTALLED_APPS. You're already including it up top

* change __init__.py to read "default_app_config = 'ladynerds.apps.LadyNerdsConfig'". No import apps, camel casing only at the end.

* change the name field of the app config to "ladynerds" instead of "LadyNerds" (but the verbose name should be fine)

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[Luis Zárate]

Do not use the same name of the project in your apps.

It is possible to do what you are doing but really needs comprehension of how python works and you need to do extra work to get ready.  So my remendation is: start a clean project with other name and copy you app folder. Put attention in what file are from settings and what is from app.

or better idea start again your app with clean project.

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