Errors with importing eav-django

[Jeremy Rottman]

I have installed eav-django into my dev environment and I am having
some issues with trying to get it imported into my application.

I have verified that eav-django is correctly installed to /usr/local/
lib/python2.7/dist-packages
This is the Traceback I am seeing:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/rottmanj/workspace/fiobox_redux/fiobox_redux/manage.py",
line 14, in <module>
execute_manager(settings)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager
utility.execute()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
__init__.py", line 379, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
base.py", line 191, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
base.py", line 219, in execute
self.validate()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
base.py", line 249, in validate
num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/
validation.py", line 35, in get_validation_errors
for (app_name, error) in get_app_errors().items():
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/
loading.py", line 146, in get_app_errors
self._populate()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/
loading.py", line 64, in _populate
self.load_app(app_name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/
loading.py", line 78, in load_app
models = import_module('.models', app_name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/
importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
__import__(name)
File "/home/rottmanj/workspace/fiobox_redux/fiobox_redux/
user_account/models.py", line 2, in <module>
from eav.models import BaseEntity, BaseSchema, BaseAttribute
ImportError: cannot import name BaseEntity
Finished "/home/rottmanj/workspace/fiobox_redux/fiobox_redux/manage.py
syncdb" execution.

This is the code that I am testing with:
from django.db import models
from eav.models import BaseEntity, BaseSchema, BaseAttribute

class Fruit(BaseEntity):
title = models.CharField(max_length=50)

class Schema(BaseSchema):
pass

class Attr(BaseAttribute):
schema = models.ForeignKey(Schema, related_name='attrs')

[Andy Mikhaylenko]

Hi Jeremy,

I think the problem is not in eav-django itself but in the way it is imported.
What happens if you "import eav" in the interactive Python shell?
Do you run your project under virtualenv?

Andy

[Ken]

Hi Andy,
I am also getting the same error even though I can successfully run 'import eav' in the python shell environment. I am running the commands from a virtual environment. What could be the problem?