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*Why do you sometimes need a soft link called ispdb pointing back at itself?
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<li>Why do you sometimes need a soft link called ispdb pointing back at itself?</li>
When you run a python manage.py <cmd>, django automatically adds the current directory to your sys.path. Since ../ is in the current directory ispdb will look like a package (because it has a __init__.py file). If your folder name is NOT ispdb, then the softlink is necessary to resolve all the references (i.e ispdb.config)
<li>When you run a python manage.py <cmd>, django automatically adds the current directory to your sys.path. Since ../ is in the current directory ispdb will look like a package (because it has a __init__.py file). If your folder name is NOT ispdb, then the softlink is necessary to resolve all the references (i.e ispdb.config)</li>


== Making a patch  ==
== Making a patch  ==
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