Django model doesn t declare an explicit app label

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I m at wit s end  After a dozen hours of troubleshooting  probably more  I thought I was finally in business  but then I got   Model class django contrib contenttypes models ContentType doesn t declare an explicit app label    There is SO LITTLE info on this on the web  and no solution out there has resolved my issue  Any advice would be tremendously appreciated   I m using Python 3 4 and Django 1 10   From my settings py   INSTALLED APPS          DeleteNote apps DeletenoteConfig        LibrarySync apps LibrarysyncConfig        django contrib admin        django contrib auth        django contrib contenttypes        django contrib sessions        django contrib messages        django contrib staticfiles       And my apps py files look like this   from django apps import AppConfig   class DeletenoteConfig AppConfig       name    DeleteNote    and  from django apps import AppConfig   class LibrarysyncConfig AppConfig       name    LibrarySync

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TL DR  Adding a blank   init   py fixed the issue for me   I got this error in PyCharm and realised that my settings file was not being imported at all  There was no obvious error telling me this  but when I put some nonsense code into the settings py  it didn t cause an error   I had settings py inside a local settings folder  However  I d fogotten to include a   init   py in the same folder to allow it to be imported  Once I d added this  the error went away

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I got this error while trying to upgrade my Django Rest Framework app to DRF 3 6 3 and Django 1 11 1   For anyone else in this situation  I found my solution in a GitHub issue  which was to unset the UNAUTHENTICATED USER setting in the DRF settings     webapp settings py     REST FRAMEWORK                  UNAUTHENTICATED USER   None

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Check also that your migrations are working correctly Python3 manage py makemigrations Python3 manage py migrate

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I had a similar issue  but I was able to solve mine by specifying explicitly the app label using Meta Class in my models class class Meta      app label     name of my app

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as a noob using Python3  I find it might be an import error instead of a Django error  wrong   from someModule import someClass   right   from  someModule import someClass   this happens a few days ago but I really can t reproduce it   I think only people new to Django may encounter this here s what I remember   try to register a model in admin py   from django contrib import admin from user import User admin site register User    try to run server  error looks like this  some lines    File   path to admin py   line 6 tell you there is an import error some lines    Model class django contrib contenttypes models ContentType doesn t declare an explicit app label   change user to  user  problem solved

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I received this error after I moved the SECRET KEY to pull from an environment variable and forgot to set it when running the application  If you have something like this in your settings py  SECRET KEY   os getenv  SECRET KEY     then make sure you are actually setting the environment variable

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I got this error also today   The Message referenced to some specific app of my apps in INSTALLED APPS  But in fact it had nothing to do with this specific App  I used a new virtual Environment and forgot to install some Libraries  that i used in this project  After i installed the additional Libraries  it worked

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I got this one when I used   manage py shell then I accidentally imported from the root project level directory    don t do this from project someapp someModule import something using a model   do this from someapp someModule import something using a model  something using a model

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For PyCharm users  I had an error using not  clean  project structure   Was   project root directory  -- src      -- chat             -- migrations             -- templates      -- django channels      -- templates   Now   project root directory  -- chat       -- migrations       -- templates           -- chat  -- django channels  -- templates   Here is a lot of good solutions  but I think  first of all  you should clean your project structure or tune PyCharm Django settings before setting DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE variables and so on   Hope it ll help someone  Cheers

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In my case I was getting this error when trying to run python manage py runserver when not connected to my project s virtual environment

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After keep on running into this issue and keep on coming back to this question I thought I d share what my problem was    Everything that  Xeberdee is correct so follow that and see if that solves the issue  if not this was my issue    In my apps py this is what I had    class AlgoExplainedConfig AppConfig       name    algo explained      verbose name    Explain Algo             And all I did was I added the project name in front of my app name like this   class AlgoExplainedConfig AppConfig   name      algorithms explained   algo explained  verbose name    Explain Algo    and that solved my problem and I was able to run the makemigrations and migrate command after that  good luck

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O   M   G I was getting this error too and I spent almost 2 days on it and now I finally managed to solve it  Honestly   the error had nothing to do with what the problem was  In my case it was a simple matter of syntax  I was trying to run a python module standalone that used some django models in a django context  but the module itself wasn t a django model  But I was declaring the class wrong  instead of having  class Scrapper      name          main link               I was doing  class Scrapper Website       name          main link               which is obviously wrong  The message is so misleading that I couldn t help myself but think it was some issue with configuration or just using django in a wrong way since I m very new to it    I ll share this here for someone newbie as me going through the same silliness can hopefully solve their issue

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Are you missing putting in your application name into the settings file  The myAppNameConfig is the default class generated at apps py by the  manage py createapp myAppName command  Where myAppName is the name of your app    settings py  INSTALLED APPS      myAppName apps myAppNameConfig    django contrib admin    django contrib auth    django contrib contenttypes    django contrib sessions    django contrib messages    django contrib staticfiles       This way  the settings file finds out what you want to call your application  You can change how it looks later in the apps py file by adding the following code in  myAppName apps py  class myAppNameConfig AppConfig       name    myAppName      verbose name    A Much Better Name

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The issue is that    You have made modifications to your models file  but not addedd them yet to the DB  but you are trying to run Python manage py runserver  Run Python manage py makemigrations Python manage py migrate Now Python manage py runserver and all should be fine

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I got this error on importing models in tests  i e  given this Django project structure    -- myproject      -- manage py      -- myproject      -- myapp          -- models py    defines model  MyModel          -- tests              -- test models py   in file test models py I imported MyModel in this way   from models import MyModel   The problem was fixed if it is imported in this way   from myapp models import MyModel   Hope this helps   PS  Maybe this is a bit late  but I not found in others answers how to solve this problem in my code and I want to share my solution

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I got this error today and ended up here after googling  None of the existing answers seem relevant to my situation  The only thing I needed to do was to import a model from my   init   py file in the top level of an app  I had to move my imports into the functions using the model   Django seems to have some weird code that can fail like this in so many different scenarios

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In my case  this was happening because I used a relative module path in project-level urls py  INSTALLED APPS and apps py instead of being rooted in the project root  i e  absolute module paths throughout  rather than relative modules paths   hacks   No matter how much I messed with the paths in INSTALLED APPS and apps py in my app  I couldn t get both runserver and pytest to work til all three of those were rooted in the project root   Folder structure    -- manage py  -- config      -- settings py      -- urls py  -- biz portal      -- apps          -- portal              -- models py              -- urls py              -- views py              -- apps py   With the following  I could run manage py runserver and gunicorn with wsgi and use portal app views without trouble  but pytest would error with ModuleNotFoundError  No module named  apps  despite DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE being configured correctly   config settings py   INSTALLED APPS                  apps portal apps PortalConfig       biz portal apps portal apps py   class PortalConfig AppConfig       name    apps portal    config urls py   urlpatterns         path     include  apps portal urls                 Changing the app reference in config settings py to biz portal apps portal apps PortalConfig and PortalConfig name to biz portal apps portal allowed pytest to run  I don t have tests for portal views yet  but runserver would error with     RuntimeError  Model class apps portal models Business doesn t declare an explicit app label and isn t in an application in INSTALLED APPS   Finally I grepped for apps portal to see what s still using a relative path  and found that config urls py should also use biz portal apps portal urls

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If all else fails  and if you are seeing this error while trying to import in a PyCharm  Python console   or  Django console     Try restarting the console   This is pretty embarassing  but it took me a while before I realized I had forgotten to do that    Here s what happened    Added a fresh app  then added a minimal model  then tried to import the model in the Python Django console  PyCharm pro 2019 2   This raised the doesn t declare an explicit app label error  because I had not added the new app to INSTALLED APPS   So  I added the app to INSTALLED APPS  tried the import again  but still got the same error    Came here  read all the other answers  but nothing seemed to fit    Finally it hit me that I had not yet restarted the Python console after adding the new app to INSTALLED APPS   Note  failing to restart the PyCharm Python console  after adding a new object to a module  is also a great way to get a very confusing ImportError  Cannot import name

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I had this error today trying to run Django tests because I was using the shorthand from  models import   syntax in one of my files  The issue was that I had a file structure like so       apps        myapp          models              init   py           foo py           bar py   and in models   init   py I was importing my models using the shorthand syntax       from  foo import       from  bar import     In my application I was importing models like so       from myapp models import Foo  Bar   This caused the Django model doesn t declare an explicit app label when running   manage py test   To fix the problem  I had to explicitly import from the full path in models   init   py       from myapp models foo import       from myapp models bar import     That took care of the error   H t https   medium com  michal bock fix-weird-exceptions-when-running-django-tests-f58def71b59a

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I ve got a similar error while building an API in Django rest framework       RuntimeError  Model class apps core models University doesn t declare an explicit   app label and isn t in an application in INSTALLED APPS    luke aus s answer helped me by correcting my urls py  from  from project apps views import SurgeryView   to   from apps views import SurgeryView

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If you have got all the config right  it might just be an import mess  keep an eye on how you are importing the offending model   The following won t work from  models import Business  Use full import path instead  from myapp models import Business

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In my case  there was an issue with BASE DIR in settings py This is the structure of the packages  project root directory  -- service package      -- db package          -- my django package                   -- my django package                        -- settings py                        --              -- my django app                 -- migrations                 -- models py                 --      It worked when updated the settings py with  INSTALLED APPS          some django stuff here           some django stuff here                    service package db package my django app     And BASE DIR pointing to the project root BASE DIR   Path   file    resolve   parent parent parent parent parent  Came to this after running django in debug  with breakpoint in registry py - gt  def get containing app config self  object name

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In my case I got this error when porting code from Django 1 11 11 to Django 2 2  I was defining a custom FileSystemStorage derived class  In Django 1 11 11 I was having the following line in models py   from django core files storage import Storage  DefaultStorage   and later in the file I had the class definition   class MyFileStorage FileSystemStorage     However  in Django 2 2 I need to explicitly reference FileSystemStorage class when importing   from django core files storage import Storage  DefaultStorage  FileSystemStorage   and voil     the error dissapears   Note  that everyone is reporting the last part of the error message spitted by Django server  However  if you scroll up you will find the reason in the middle of that error mambo-jambo

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I just ran into this issue and figured out what was going wrong  Since no previous answer described the issue as it happened to me  I though I would post it for others    the issue came from using python migrate py startapp myApp from my project root folder  then move myApp to a child folder with mv myApp myFolderWithApps   I wrote myApp models and ran python migrate py makemigrations  All went well  then I did the same with another app that was importing models from myApp  Kaboom  I ran into this error  while performing makemigrations  That was because I had to use myFolderWithApps myApp to reference my app  but I had forgotten to update MyApp apps py  So I corrected myApp apps py  settings INSTALLED APPS and my import path in my second app  but then the error kept happening  the reason was that I had migrations trying to import the models from myApp with the wrong path  I tried to correct the migration file  but I went at the point where it was easier to reset the DB and delete the migrations to start from scratch    So to make a long story short   - the issue was initially coming from the wrong app name in apps py of myApp  in settings and in the import path of my second app   - but it was not enough to correct the paths in these three places  as migrations had been created with imports referencing the wrong app name  Therefore  the same error kept happening while migrating  except this time from migrations    So    check your migrations  and good luck

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I get the same error and I don  t know how to figure out this problem  It took me many hours to notice that I have a init py at the same direcory as the manage py from django   Before    -- myproject    --   init   py    -- manage py    -- myproject      --        -- app1      -- models py    -- app2      -- models py   After    -- myproject    -- manage py    -- myproject      --        -- app1      -- models py    -- app2      -- models py   It is quite confused that you get this  doesn t declare an explicit app label  error  But deleting this init file solved my problem

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I had exactly the same error when running tests with PyCharm  I ve fixed it by explicitly setting DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE environment variable  If you re using PyCharm  just hit Edit Configurations button and choose Environment Variables   Set the variable to your project name settings and that should fix the thing   It seems like this error occurs  because PyCharm runs tests with its own manage py

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I had the same problem just now  I ve fixed mine by adding a namespace on the app name   Hope someone find this helpful    apps py  from django apps import AppConfig      class SalesClientConfig AppConfig           name    portal sales client          verbose name    Sales Client

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In my case  I was trying the same import in manage py shell  The shell was messed up with the updated db  I mean  I forgot to restart my shell after updating the DB  To resolve the issue  I had to stop the shell by the following command   gt  gt  gt  exit    then restart the shell by the following command    python3 manage py shell   Hope this will help somebody like me

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in my case I was able to find a fix and by looking at the everyone else s code it may be the same issue   I simply just had to add  django contrib sites  to the list of installed apps in the settings py file   hope this helps someone  this is my first contribution to the coding community

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I ran into this error when I tried generating migrations for a single app which had existing malformed migrations due to a git merge  e g   manage py makemigrations myapp   When I deleted it s migrations and then ran   manage py makemigrations   the error did not occur and the migrations generated successfully

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Most probably you have dependent imports   In my case I used a serializer class as a parameter in my model  and the serializer class was using this model  serializer class   AccountSerializer  from   api serializers import AccountSerializer  class Account AbstractBaseUser       serializer class   AccountSerializer           And in the  serializers  file   from   models import Account  class AccountSerializer serializers ModelSerializer       class Meta          model   Account         fields                  id    email    date created    date modified                firstname    lastname    password    confirm password

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