How to import models in other projects in Django

Question

Is it possible to import models from apps in different Django projects?

I hope to move some common models in a base projects from which every child projects can share the same data in these common models.

Edit

I have to place

from baseproject.appname.models import basemodel

before

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'childproject.settings'
from django.conf import settings

in child project to access the data in base model correctly.

Answer 1

Yes. You can turn a project-specific app into a standard Python package by moving it to site-packages (or wherever your Python install expects its modules) and breaking any links from it to other apps in the project. You can then import it as you would any Python module, in any project.