[Python] Django third party app name conflicts

I have been trying to get two third party apps to play nice together, and it just hasn't been working for me, due to their names.

The two apps I am trying to get to work are django-user-accounts and django-allauth. The problem is, both apps are using the same namespace "account", and I don't understand the way I'm supposed to fix them.

I did find some things like this, which seem to be the way to go about fixing it, but when I try to implement it, I have two problems.

1. It doesn't seem to do anything at all for django-user-accounts.
2. With django-allauth, there are many different apps underneath the allauth package, and to get the account app folder for it, I have to also create the allauth folder first, which makes those other apps inaccessible.

Here's what I have so far.

Under my project folder I created this structure:

allauth
├── account
│ ├── apps.py
│ └── __init__.py
└── __init__.py


In allauth.account.__init__, I have:

from django.apps import AppConfig

default_app_config = 'allauth.account.apps.CustomAccountAppConfig'


In allauth.account.apps I have:

from django.apps import AppConfig


class CustomAccountAppConfig(AppConfig):

verbose_name = 'custom account'
name = "allauth.account"
label = "custom_account"

def __init__(self, app_name, app_module):
AppConfig.__init__(self,app_name, app_module)


This appears to resolve the conflict with the name, but I then get ImportError: No module named 'allauth.socialaccount', because it has overridden the allauth package.

How can I solve this naming conflict and keep all other subpackages and applications working?

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