must be of the form 'app_label.ModelName'." % model ValueError: Invalid model reference

Question

When I python3 manage.py makemigrations, I get bellow error:

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  File \"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-         


        

Answer 1

Has a bit different situation with the same error message:

ValueError: Invalid model reference 'users.models.MyUser'. String model references must be of the form 'app_label.ModelName'.

The error was that I've specified models in the path to the MyUser model:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'users.models.MyUser'

But we shouldn't do it, we just need specify the package and model name only

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'users.MyUser'

And error is gone.