from functools import wraps
from django.db import connection


def auto_close_db(f):
    "Ensures the database connection is closed when the function returns."
    @wraps(f)
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        try:
            return f(*args, **kwargs)
        finally:
            connection.close()
    return wrapper

from functools import wraps


def auto_close_db(f):
    "Ensures the database connection is closed when the function returns."
    from django.db import connection
    @wraps(f)
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        try:
            return f(*args, **kwargs)
        finally:
            connection.close()
    return wrapper

Fix circular import when used with other add-ons that import django.db
Fix circular import when used with other add-ons that import django.db

eg sorl_thumbnail:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/rpatterson/src/work/retrans/src/ReTransDjango/bin/manage", line 40, in <module>
    sys.exit(manage.main())
  File "/home/rpatterson/src/work/retrans/src/ReTransDjango/retrans/manage.py", line 15, in main
    execute_manager(settings)
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager
    utility.execute()
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 379, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/base.py", line 191, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/base.py", line 209, in execute
    translation.activate('en-us')
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 100, in activate
    return _trans.activate(language)
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 202, in activate
    _active.value = translation(language)
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 185, in translation
    default_translation = _fetch(settings.LANGUAGE_CODE)
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 162, in _fetch
    app = import_module(appname)
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/opt/src/eggs/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.7.egg/sorl/thumbnail/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from sorl.thumbnail.fields import ImageField
  File "/opt/src/eggs/sorl_thumbnail-11.12-py2.7.egg/sorl/thumbnail/fields.py", line 2, in <module>
    from django.db import models
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/db/__init__.py", line 78, in <module>
    connection = connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS]
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/db/utils.py", line 94, in __getitem__
    backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
  File "/opt/src/eggs/Django-1.3-py2.7.egg/django/db/utils.py", line 47, in load_backend
    if backend_name not in available_backends:
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'django_mysqlpool.backends.mysqlpool' isn't an available database backend.
Try using django.db.backends.XXX, where XXX is one of:
    'dummy', 'mysql', 'oracle', 'postgresql', 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'sqlite3'
Error was: cannot import name connection
