django-apps

I will be brief: to work in the spirit and idea of a Django app, it is ok for an app to import models from inside another app ? Say, a User statistics app will import models from a User app something like: from users.models import users If you're building an internal app that has no chance of ever being released to the public, sure, do whatever you want. If you're building an internal app that has little chance of ever being released to the public, but will possibly be used by future/current developers, sure, but be sure to document what the app needs to work properly. If you're building an

I have been developing in django for sometime now, and have developed a neat website having functionality such as writing blogs, posting questions, sharing content etc. However there is still one thing that is missing and i.e. creating notification for users. What I want to do is to inform users in their profiles, whenever somebody comments on their posts, or if they are following a particular post and there is an update on it, then inform the user of that update. I have looked around many applications but I am still very confused about how to do it. In case of using django-notification I seem

Is there a preferred naming convention for creating a Django app consisting of more than one word? For instance, which of the following is preferred? my_django_app my-django-app Update: Not allowed syntactically mydjangoapp Recommended solution While all of them may be options 1 and 3 are syntactically allowed, is there a preference? Looking at the way Django creates the table names by combining the app name and the model name with an underscore, I'm leaning against option #1. Thoughts? They must be valid package names. That rules out 2 ("import my-django-app" would be a syntax error). PEP 8