Recursive imports in django.contrib.contenttypes.generic

[oliver@…]

I'm trying to import django.contrib.contenttypes.generic in a script of mine, which causes a recursive import in Django:-

>>> from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/contrib/contenttypes/generic.py", line 8, in <module>
    from django.db.models import signals
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from django.db.models.query import Q
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 7, in <module>
    from django.db.models import signals, sql
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from subqueries import *
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/subqueries.py", line 5, in <module>
    from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
ImportError: cannot import name generic

However, if I try this in Django's shell (as in through manage.py shell this seems to work fine for some reason. However, in a standard Python shell when I've run setup_environ it doesn't, and I see this error. It's important for me to be able to use it in the standard Python shell as this was highlighted to me by a script I'm trying to write).

[George Vilches]

By coincidence I had the exact same error occur today. For a short term fix, do the imports in this order:

from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic

I'm not saying you should have to, just that it seems to work for setup_environ() for me.

[Gary Wilson]

(In [7635]) Fixed #7387 - Fixed circular import problem when importing contrib.contenttypes.generic module.