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4993	Application cannot be called collections, but manage.py doesn't disallow the user to create it	oliver@…	Adrian Holovaty	"If one creates an application named 'collections', and subsequently attempts to run ``syncdb`` against it, an ImportError is raised as it 'overrides' the ``collections`` module, from which ``deque`` is tried to be imported by ``threading``:

{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""manage.py"", line 11, in ?
    execute_manager(settings)
  File ""/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/management.py"", line 1678, in execute_manager
    execute_from_command_line(action_mapping, argv)
  File ""/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/management.py"", line 1577, in execute_from_command_line
    action_mapping[action](int(options.verbosity), options.interactive)
  File ""/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/management.py"", line 468, in syncdb
    from django.db import connection, transaction, models, get_creation_module
  File ""/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py"", line 11, in ?
    backend = __import__('django.db.backends.%s.base' % settings.DATABASE_ENGINE, {}, {}, [''])
  File ""/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py"", line 61, in ?
    from django.utils._threading_local import local
  File ""/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/utils/_threading_local.py"", line 240, in ?
    from dummy_threading import currentThread, enumerate, RLock
  File ""/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/dummy_threading.py"", line 50, in ?
    import threading
  File ""/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/threading.py"", line 13, in ?
    from collections import deque
ImportError: cannot import name deque
}}}

I know it's no biggie; just thought I might make people aware of it – not sure even if this even warrants a ticket, though!"		closed	Core (Other)	dev		duplicate	collections model conflict	oliver@…	Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0