Django: Model name clash

Question

I am trying to use different open source apps in my project. Problem is that there is a same Model name used by two different apps with their own model definition.

Answer 1

The problem is that both Satchmo and Pinax have a Contact model with a ForeignKey to User. Django tries to add a "contact_set" reverse relationship attribute to User for each of those ForeignKeys, so there is a clash.

The solution is to add something like related_name="pinax_contact_set" as an argument to the ForeignKey in Pinax's Contact model, or similarly in the Satchmo Contact model. That will require editing the source directly for one or the other. You might be able to find a way to do it via monkeypatching, but I'd expect that to be tricky.