autodiscovery fails when using AppConfig install

i’m new to django-moderation and somewhat new to django as well, so I apologize if I’m overlooking something basic. I’ve been unable to add 'moderation.apps.ModerationConfig' to INSTALLED_APPS – even with a fresh django startproject (django 1.11.9) – due to what seems to be an incompatibility with the way helpers.auto_discover pulls directly from settings.INSTALLED_APPS… I get the error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'moderation.apps.ModerationConfig'; 'moderation.apps' is not a package

(and I get the same error with all of my custom apps that are installed using appConfig paths instead of package names). This makes sense of course, since helpers.import_moderator() can’t use import_module() to directly import the AppConfig class itself. The only way I can get it to work is by changing the auto_discover function to use get_app_configs():

def auto_discover():
    from django.apps import apps
    for app in [app.name for app in apps.get_app_configs() if app != 'moderation']:
        import_moderator(app)

However, using 'moderation.apps.ModerationConfig' as the install string is described in the docs, so I feel I must be in error somehow?

[zypro]

The install string in the docs is ‘moderation.apps.SimpleModerationConfig’ insead of ModerationConfig!! That’s the important difference.

[tlawren3]

I’m experiencing this issue in a similar manner.

relevant section of installed_apps:

    'moderation',
    'users.apps.UsersConfig',
    'core',

when I insert moderation into my installed_apps and attempt to migrate, I get this error:

 File "/Users/tlawrence/.conda/envs/hiccup/lib/python3.7/site-packages/moderation/apps.py", line 13, in ready
    auto_discover()
  File "/Users/tlawrence/.conda/envs/hiccup/lib/python3.7/site-packages/moderation/helpers.py", line 48, in auto_discover
    import_moderator(app)
  File "/Users/tlawrence/.conda/envs/hiccup/lib/python3.7/site-packages/moderation/helpers.py", line 27, in import_moderator
    app_path = import_module(app).__path__
  File "/Users/tlawrence/.conda/envs/hiccup/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 962, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'users.apps.UsersConfig'; 'users.apps' is not a package

I confirmed that it works if I remove moderation from my installed apps. Please advise.