from django.db import connection if hasattr(connection.ops, 'spatial_version'): from warnings import warn warn('The `django.contrib.gis.db.backend` module was refactored and ' 'renamed to `django.contrib.gis.db.backends` in 1.2. ' 'All functionality of `SpatialBackend` ' 'has been moved to the `ops` attribute of the spatial database ' 'backend. A `SpatialBackend` alias is provided here for ' 'backwards-compatibility, but will be removed in 1.3.') SpatialBackend = connection.ops