Prevented makemigrations from writing in sys.path[0].

There's no reason to assume that sys.path[0] is an appropriate location
for generating code. Specifically that doesn't work with extend_sys_path
which puts the additional directories at the end of sys.path.

In order to create a new migrations module, instead of using an
arbitrary entry from sys.path, import as much as possible from the path
to the module, then create missing submodules from there.

Without this change, the tests introduced in the following commit fail,
which seems sufficient to prevent regressions for such a refactoring.

django/db/migrations/writer.py

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import inspect
 import math
 import os
 import re
-import sys
 import types
 from importlib import import_module
 
@@ -18,6 +17,7 @@ from django.utils import datetime_safe, six
 from django.utils._os import upath
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text
 from django.utils.functional import Promise
+from django.utils.module_loading import module_dir
 from django.utils.timezone import utc
 from django.utils.version import get_docs_version
 
@@ -200,44 +200,67 @@ class MigrationWriter(object):
             value_repr = "datetime.%s" % value_repr
         return value_repr
 
+    @property
+    def basedir(self):
+        migrations_package_name = MigrationLoader.migrations_module(self.migration.app_label)
+
+        # See if we can import the migrations module directly
+        try:
+            migrations_module = import_module(migrations_package_name)
+        except ImportError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            try:
+                return upath(module_dir(migrations_module))
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
+
+        # Alright, see if it's a direct submodule of the app
+        app_config = apps.get_app_config(self.migration.app_label)
+        maybe_app_name, _, migrations_package_basename = migrations_package_name.rpartition(".")
+        if app_config.name == maybe_app_name:
+            return os.path.join(app_config.path, migrations_package_basename)
+
+        # In case of using MIGRATION_MODULES setting and the custom package
+        # doesn't exist, create one, starting from an existing package
+        existing_dirs, missing_dirs = migrations_package_name.split("."), []
+        while existing_dirs:
+            missing_dirs.insert(0, existing_dirs.pop(-1))
+            try:
+                base_module = import_module(".".join(existing_dirs))
+            except ImportError:
+                continue
+            else:
+                try:
+                    base_dir = upath(module_dir(base_module))
+                except ValueError:
+                    continue
+                else:
+                    break
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Could not locate an appropriate location to create "
+                "migrations package %s. Make sure the toplevel "
+                "package exists and can be imported." %
+                migrations_package_name)
+
+        final_dir = os.path.join(base_dir, *missing_dirs)
+        if not os.path.isdir(final_dir):
+            os.makedirs(final_dir)
+        for missing_dir in missing_dirs:
+            base_dir = os.path.join(base_dir, missing_dir)
+            with open(os.path.join(base_dir, "__init__.py"), "w"):
+                pass
+
+        return final_dir
+
     @property
     def filename(self):
         return "%s.py" % self.migration.name
 
     @property
     def path(self):
-        migrations_package_name = MigrationLoader.migrations_module(self.migration.app_label)
+        return os.path.join(self.basedir, self.filename)
-        # See if we can import the migrations module directly
-        try:
-            migrations_module = import_module(migrations_package_name)
-
-            # Python 3 fails when the migrations directory does not have a
-            # __init__.py file
-            if not hasattr(migrations_module, '__file__'):
-                raise ImportError
-
-            basedir = os.path.dirname(upath(migrations_module.__file__))
-        except ImportError:
-            app_config = apps.get_app_config(self.migration.app_label)
-            migrations_package_basename = migrations_package_name.split(".")[-1]
-
-            # Alright, see if it's a direct submodule of the app
-            if '%s.%s' % (app_config.name, migrations_package_basename) == migrations_package_name:
-                basedir = os.path.join(app_config.path, migrations_package_basename)
-            else:
-                # In case of using MIGRATION_MODULES setting and the custom
-                # package doesn't exist, create one.
-                package_dirs = migrations_package_name.split(".")
-                create_path = os.path.join(upath(sys.path[0]), *package_dirs)
-                if not os.path.isdir(create_path):
-                    os.makedirs(create_path)
-                for i in range(1, len(package_dirs) + 1):
-                    init_dir = os.path.join(upath(sys.path[0]), *package_dirs[:i])
-                    init_path = os.path.join(init_dir, "__init__.py")
-                    if not os.path.isfile(init_path):
-                        open(init_path, "w").close()
-                return os.path.join(create_path, self.filename)
-        return os.path.join(basedir, self.filename)
 
     @classmethod
     def serialize_deconstructed(cls, path, args, kwargs):

django/utils/module_loading.py

@@ -148,3 +148,21 @@ else:
         else:
             # Exhausted the search, so the module cannot be found.
             return False
+
+
+def module_dir(module):
+    """
+    Find the name of the directory that contains a module, if possible.
+
+    Raise ValueError otherwise, e.g. for namespace packages that are split
+    over several directories.
+    """
+    # Convert to list because _NamespacePath does not support indexing on 3.3.
+    paths = list(getattr(module, '__path__', []))
+    if len(paths) == 1:
+        return paths[0]
+    else:
+        filename = getattr(module, '__file__', None)
+        if filename is not None:
+            return os.path.dirname(filename)
+    raise ValueError("Cannot determine directory containing %s" % module)