Django AppRegistryNotReady when defining a model - django

Question

I wanted to add the first model to an already working app, and now I can't start it because it always gives AppRegistryNotReady. This does only happen, if my model MailLog is child of models.Model.
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.db import models
#class MailLog(models.Model): # like this, it crashes
class MailLog(): # like this, it works
# Field definitions
recipient = models.EmailField()
created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
template = models.CharField(max_length=500)
error = models.TextField(null=True)
def __str__(self):
return self.recipient+" "+self.template+"("+str(self.created)+")"
The error occurs no matter what's inside the class, even if there is only a pass. However, I can import my models in the admin.py, and it crashes when I import from a file I called core.py. That file looks like this:
import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
from django.template import loader
from django.conf import settings
from .templates import *
from .models import MailLog
The traceback looks like this
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 22, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 367, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 316, in execute
settings.INSTALLED_APPS
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 53, in __getattr__
self._setup(name)
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 41, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 97, in __init__
mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
__import__(name)
File "/home/niels/Dokumente/jobapp/deploy/backend/settings.py", line 255, in <module>
django.setup()
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 27, in setup
apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 85, in populate
app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 90, in create
module = import_module(entry)
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
__import__(name)
File "/home/niels/Dokumente/jobapp/deploy/ses_mail/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
from .core import send
File "/home/niels/Dokumente/jobapp/deploy/ses_mail/core.py", line 7, in <module>
from .admin import MailLog
File "/home/niels/Dokumente/jobapp/deploy/ses_mail/admin.py", line 2, in <module>
from .models import *
File "/home/niels/Dokumente/jobapp/deploy/ses_mail/models.py", line 6, in <module>
class MailLog(models.Model):
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 105, in __new__
app_config = apps.get_containing_app_config(module)
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 237, in get_containing_app_config
self.check_apps_ready()
File "/home/niels/anaconda3/envs/app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 124, in check_apps_ready
raise AppRegistryNotReady("Apps aren't loaded yet.")
django.core.exceptions.AppRegistryNotReady: Apps aren't loaded yet.

Answer 1

You should not be importing Django models in your app's __init__ (or causing them to be imported by importing from core. If you use an empty __init__.py it should stop the error.