Import error with Python Django

Question

(Note: I have found a workaround, as stated at the bottom, but it seems like the wrong way to go about this.)

views.py and forms.py are both in

R:\\\\jeffy\\\\programming\\\\sandbox\\\\python\\\\django_files\\\\tutorial\\\\django_test\\\\django_test\\\\

and

R:\\\\jeffy\\\\programming\\\\sandbox\\\\python\\\\django_files\\\\tutorial\\\\django_test\\\\

is in Django's "Python Path"

But when attempting

from forms import MyRegistrationForm

in views.py , it results in an ImportError ... No module named 'forms' .

I changed it to

 from django_test.forms import MyRegistrationForm 

but that results in SyntaxError ... invalid syntax .

Since

R:\\jeffy\\programming\\sandbox\\python\\django_files\\tutorial\\django_test\\django_test

is a package (it has the empty __init__.py file in it), I thought I could refer to django_test in this way. (It's also the Django project name.)

I can manually add

R:\\\\jeffy\\\\programming\\\\sandbox\\\\python\\\\django_files\\\\tutorial\\\\django_test\\\\django_test\\\\

to the PYTHONPATH environment variable (Windows 7, 32 bit, Django 1.7c2), and get it to work. But since this implies that every Django project must be added to the PYTHONPATH , it seems like it should be able to work without having to do this.

Am I correct? Is there a way to import forms.py from views.py (which is in the same directory) without having to manually add its directory to the PYTHONPATH ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If it's in the same directory, try a relative import:

from .forms import MyRegistrationForm

EDIT: Someone posted this same suggestion as a comment already. I didn't see the comment.