Django External Library And App Name Conflict

Have a django app 'my_app'. Now added an external library that happens to have the same name and needs to be added to INSTALLED_APPS. src | -- apps | --- **my_app**

Solution 1:

Well, brace yourself for the upcoming Django 1.7 release which solves such app conflicts in an elegant manner using an "app registry". You can set a label for each app to refer to them with a different name.