So I'm attempting to write a Django reusable app that provides a method for displaying your Twitter feed on your page. I know well that it already exists 20 times. It's an academic exercise. :)
Directory structure is pretty simple:
myproject
|__ __init__.py
|__ manage.py
|__ settings.py
|__ myapp
|__ __init__.py
|__ admin.py
|__ conf
|__ __init__.py
|__ appsettings.py
|__ feedparser.py
|__ models.py
|__ templates
|__ __init__.py
|__ templatetags
|__ __init__.py
|__ twitterfeed.py
|__ views.py
|__ templates
|__ base.html
|__ urls.py
When running the Django shell, the functions defined in twitterfeed.py work perfectly. I also believe that I have the template tags properly named and registered.
As you can see, I use the excellent Universal Feed Parser. My problem is not within UFP itself, but in UFP's inability to be called while importing the template tag library. When I {% load twitterfeed %} in base.py, I get the following error:
'twitterfeed' is not a valid tag library: Could not load template library from django.templatetags.twitterfeed, No module named feedparser
I import feedparser using the following statement:
import re, datetime, time, myapp.feedparser
The best I can tell, this error message is slightly deceiving. I think there's an ImportError going on when the template library is loaded, and this is Django's interpretation of it.
Is there any way I can import feedparser.py within my reusable app without requiring users of the app to place feedparser somewhere in their PythonPath?
Thanks!
This looks like one of those annoying relative path issues - solved in Python 2.6 and higher (where you can do import ..feedparser etc) but often a bit tricky on older versions. One cheap and cheerful way to fix this could be just to move feedparser.py in to your templatetags directory, as a sibling to twitterfeed.py