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Diffstat (limited to 'django/core/management/commands/startproject.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | django/core/management/commands/startproject.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/django/core/management/commands/startproject.py b/django/core/management/commands/startproject.py index ab4f409f15..867d4fd3da 100644 --- a/django/core/management/commands/startproject.py +++ b/django/core/management/commands/startproject.py @@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ class Command(LabelCommand): # the parent directory. directory = os.getcwd() - if project_name in INVALID_PROJECT_NAMES: - raise CommandError("%r conflicts with the name of an existing Python module and cannot be used as a project name. Please try another name." % project_name) + try: + proj_name = __import__(project_name) + if proj_name: + raise CommandError("%r conflicts with the name of an existing Python module and cannot be used as a project name. Please try another name." % project_name) + except ImportError: + if project_name in INVALID_PROJECT_NAMES: + raise CommandError("%r contains an invalid project name. Please try another name." % project_name) copy_helper(self.style, 'project', project_name, directory) |