Django won't detect changes in models

Question

I am outsourcing my models into packages in order to have a better overview. So the models.py of my app main looks like

from django.db import models
from models import *

And the actual models are in models/user.py, ...

So when I go back to prepare a migration:

python manage.py makemigrations main

Django won't detect any changes. Why?

• coder3521: Give a look to this post stackoverflow.com/questions/24912173/…
• Foon: You have a models.py and a models directory in your main directory? Aren't you asking for confusion on which python will import? (See stackoverflow.com/questions/4092395/…) I would suggest renaming the directory to mymodels or similar. This may not actually be your issue, but it still makes my python-sense tingle.

Answer 1

I had the same problem with migrating my models. so i changed the import methodology and instead of

from models import *

i tried this

from models.user import User, Device, ...

and it worked

Answer 2

Django looks into 'appname/models.py'. If you want this structure, you can use 'appname/user/models.py' and in INSTALLED_APPS 'appname.user', but it's better to use flat design: 'appname/models.py', 'user/models.py', ...