Multiple databases with same model names causing get errors

[anonymous]

Code that causes the problem:

everyone.py:
class Person(models.Model):

emplid = models.CharField(max_length=15,primary_key=True)
... (other fields deleted)

class Meta:

app_label = u'everyone'
db_tablespace = u'everyone'
db_table = u'people_names'
managed = False

people.py:
class Person(models.Model):

emplid = models.CharField(max_length=11, db_column='emplid', primary_key=True

) ... (other fields deleted)

class Meta:

app_label = u'commons'
db_tablespace = u'people'
db_table = u'person'

The 2nd people.Person model is my default db, so #1 is "everyone.Person" and #2 is just "Person".

I tried (view.py):

try:

person = everyone.Person.objects.get(pk=emplid)

except everyone.Person.DoesNotExist: # person not found by "get"

do some stuff

django complains in the 'except' : global name 'everyone' is not defined.

Apparently django does not support multi-database models in the same way as the default database. There is a work-around, but this behaviour then is inconsistent with default database models. Don't know if this is due to model names being the same.

[anonymous]

Work around is to include:

from everyone import Person as SomeOtherModelName

then use SomeOtherModelName.objects.get(pk=emplid)

This seems like a cluge?

[Michael Radziej]

This looks like a user error - you forgot to import everyone. Please post full error messages and use the right formatting for code snippets. For support, please use the django-users mailing list.