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
22577	The makemigrations management command has a problem with migrations dir	japrogramer@…	Vidir Valberg Gudmundsson	"When the migration folder does not have an init 
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{{{

File ""/home/archie/git/django/django/db/migrations/writer.py"", line 150, in path basedir = os.path.dirname(migrations_module.__file__)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__'

}}}

the problem lies with `makemigrations.py` line 134-36 they are checking to see if an init file exists in the migrations dir but it checks using  a line that depends on the existence of `__init__.py`. line 130 , `writer.path`, following to see where this code comes from led me to line 149 and 150 which need there to be an init file for `__file__` to be an attribute there .. 
tl;dr
`makemigrations` checks for an init file using `os.path.isdir` but with a call that depends on an `__init__.py` for it treats it as a module before it knows if it is a module"	Bug	closed	Migrations	dev	Release blocker	fixed	makemigrations, fail, init, file		Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0