[Dev-flock] contrib.auth attribute errors

[Lucy Mendel]

whoa. guess i'm missing something about how python imports work.

all I did was add from django.contrib.auth.models import * to make things work.

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import *
>>> dir(django.contrib.auth)   <<<<< works fine b/c models shows up in list

the from django.contrib import auth simply allows one to reference
auth directly dir(auth), but isn't deeply importing. or something

eit,
l.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Lucy Mendel <lucy at thoughtandmemory.org> wrote:
> this seems to be a path problem, since emulating correct environment
>  settings seems to make things work.
>
>  >>> import sys, os>>> PROJECT_PATH="/var/sites/hm_demo";     >>>
>  sys.path.insert(0, PROJECT_PATH)>>> os.chdir(PROJECT_PATH)
>  >>> os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "settings"
>  >>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>
> >>> from django.contrib import auth
>  >>> dir(auth);
>  ['BACKEND_SESSION_KEY', 'ImproperlyConfigured', 'REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME',
>  'SESSION_KEY', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__',
>  '__path__', 'authenticate', 'datetime', 'get_backends', 'get_user',
>  'load_backend', 'login', 'logout', 'models']
>  >>> auth.models
>  <module 'django.contrib.auth.models' from
>  '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/models.pyc'>
>  >>>
>
>  i think i'll be able to figure out where we go wrong settings-wise. woot.
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Lucy Mendel <lucy at thoughtandmemory.org> wrote:
>  > ratings, and possibly other things, don't work because of user
>  >  authentication. anyone know what the dilly is on this one?
>  >
>  >  in the meantime, i'm moving ahead on svn-izing /var/sites/hm_demo (not
>  >  hm_production, which i think is a dud), or doing whatever is necessary
>  >  to publish hm_staging to hm_demo.
>  >
>  >  here's the problem:
>  >
>  >    Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr  5 2007, 20:11:18)
>  >    [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
>  >    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >  >>> from django.contrib import auth;
>  >  >>> dir(auth);
>  >    ['BACKEND_SESSION_KEY', 'ImproperlyConfigured',
>  >  'REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME', 'SESSION_KEY',
>  >     '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__path__',
>  >  'authenticate', 'datetime', 'get_backends',
>  >    'get_user', 'load_backend', 'login', 'logout']
>  >  >>> auth.models
>  >    Traceback (most recent call last):
>  >      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  >    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'models'
>  >
>  >  here are the details:
>  >  user clicks on a star in order to rate a review. the user can be
>  >  logged in or be anonymous; same error:
>  >
>  >  POST fails (yay firebug, boo viewing html in plain text)
>  >
>  >  Request URL:  http://thoughtandmemory.org/Main/add_behavior_rating/
>  >
>  >  AttributeError': module' object has no attribute 'models'
>  >
>  >  /var/sites/hm_demo/db/utils.py in current_user, line 87
>  >  def current_user():
>  >     """
>  >     @summary:
>  >
>  >     @return:
>  >     @rtype:
>  >
>  >     @raise UserNotAuthenticated:
>  >     """
>  >     user = threadlocals.get_current_user()
>  >     if isinstance(user, auth.models.User):    <<<<<<<< line 87
>  >         return user
>  >     else:
>  >         return auth.models.User.objects.all()[0]
>  >         #raise UserNotAuthenticated()
>  >
>