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12231	The project path is incorrectly build, it wipe the namespace	mleduc	nobody	"If by example your django is in an egg like

my.site.project

If you call the django core execution manager with:

mod = __import__('my.site.project')
django.core.management.execute_manager(mod)

Your project will not be found cause the django core is declaring the main DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE with:

django.core.management.__init__:
...
project_directory, settings_filename = os.path.split(p)
if project_directory == os.curdir or not project_directory:
   project_directory = os.getcwd()
project_name = os.path.basename(project_directory)
...
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = '%s.%s' % (project_name, settings_name)
...

The project_name variable represent only the first level of the project egg. It could not work with a multilevel package and we now have to use the variable 'original_settings_path' which is just optional.

The solution maybe to use the special __package__ variable of the settings_mod module. 

I attach a patch with this ticket whick correct this problem.


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