id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 4543 django-admin.py startapp and startproject should help newbies avoid module name clash Jeremy Dunck Adrian Holovaty "Fairly often, newbies name their first Django project ""site"", which breaks python's built-in site package, disabling packages and .pth's in site-packages. Ouch. Perhaps Django should validate that the thing you supply to startapp and startproject aren't named something that's already importable, or in the regular library paths, or similar, issuing an error something like this: {{{ """""" The name you've given the project, ""site"", clashes with the existing module ""site"" located at ""/usr/lib/python2.5/"". This is likely to cause confusion when importing the modules. Please choose another name or use the --force flag to continue. For more info, see the Python Tutorial section on modules: http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html """""" }}} As a real-world example, in the thread below, a person had the misfortune of naming an app ""calendar"", and then trying to use the python built-in calendar module from the wrong directory: Forwarded Conversation Subject: App Migration: ImportError @ isleap ------------------------ From: Justin Lilly Reply-To: django-users@googlegroups.com To: Django users Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:33 PM Hi all. I have a little calendar working based on a django snippet from masida_ in #django (Freenode). ... It seems to be having a problem with the isleap function. I've imported both calendar and datetime, so I'm not sure what the problem is. ... -------- From: Justin Lilly Reply-To: django-users@googlegroups.com To: Django users Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 5:41 PM For archival purposes, the reason it wasn't working is I had named one of my apps ""calendar"". After I renamed it to agenda and remapped it appropriately, everything was in working order. ... " closed Core (Management commands) dev duplicate newbie Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0