Django ORM on Standalone Applications
django, orm, python
Solution
Looking at the code of `django.utils.importlib.py` where the execption is raised you see that your settings file name is causing the problem:
if name.startswith('.'):
if not package:
raise TypeError("relative imports require the 'package' argument")
Don't use `.settings.py` as the name for your settings file, use something that does not start with a '.' and it will solve this particular error.
Problem
I followed this link to use Django's ORM on my stand alone application in python. manage.py sql 'application_name' and manage.py syncdb is working well and tables were created when I performed syncdb. The problem I am encountering is when I am running the actual script (for this case, it's dparser.py) that will handle DB transactions, I am encountering a "TypeError: relative imports require the 'package' argument". Below is the stacktrace: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "dparser.py", line 23, in <module> from dmodel.models import * File "/home/<user>/d/dapp/dmodel/models.py", line 1, in <module> from django.db import models File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 11, in <module> if DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS not in settings.DATABASES: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 184, in inner self._setup() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 42, in _setup self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 93, in __init__ mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 28, in import_module raise TypeError("relative imports require the 'package' argument") TypeError: relative imports require the 'package' argument ``` Below are the contents of my settings.py, models.py and dparser.py: settings.py: ``` DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'NAME': 'd', 'USER': 'root', 'PASSWORD': '<password>', 'HOST': 'localhost', 'PORT': '3306', } } INSTALLED_APPS = ("dapp.dmodel",) ``` models.py: ``` from django.db import models from django.db.models import Max class Topics(models.Model): topic_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) topic = models.CharField(max_length=1000) class Links(models.Model): link_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) topic = models.ForeignKey(Topics) link = models.CharField(max_length=1000) def getLastId(tag): ... return lastid ``` dparser.py (partial): ``` from django.conf import settings os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = ".settings.py" DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'NAME': 'd', 'USER': 'root', 'PASSWORD': '<password>', 'HOST': 'localhost', 'PORT': '3306', } } INSTALLED_APPS = ("dapp.dmodel",) from dmodel.models import * # --> This is were the exception occurs ``` Hope somebody can help me out here. Thanks in advance!