Unable to determine if django_nose is installed about django-nose

[willkg]

I poked around and we can "cheat" and do:

import django_nose.management

That's a no-op __init__.py, so it doesn't import anything.

[squiddy]

That's what I tried, and it didn't work for me because it's still going through django_nose/__init__.py here.

[willkg]

Oh, bah. I see what you're getting at.

[erikrose]

Boy, that's a tough one. I can't really remove the imports from __init__ until 2.0, because that's been the public API to this point. Hmm.

[willkg]

What we ended up doing was a goofy assumption where if they have nose installed, then we add django-nose to the INSTALLED_APPS list. That'll do for now, though it does have some edge cases.

[ke1g]

imp.find_module('django_nose')

(you have to import imp)

This raises ImportError if the module or package is not on the path, but doesn't actually import it if it is there.

(If it's a module, the first element of the tuple returned will be an open file object for the file. If it's a package, that first element will be None. You should probably close the file if there is one.)

[erikrose]

Good call! Let me know if that wouldn't have worked for you, @willkg.

[willkg]

That works super. Thanks!