Import a django app view in another app view

Question

I have two django apps and I've called a view of app1 in app2, like this:

#app: app1
#someview.py

def a_view(request, someparam):
    #some code here


#app: app2
#otherview.py

from app1.someview import a_view

def another_view(request):
param = 1
a_view(request, param)

def view2(request):
  #some code

It works fine. My problem is that now I want to call a view from app2 in app1. So I add the import statement in someview.py like this:

#app: app1
    #someview.py
    from app2.otherview import view2

    def a_view(request, someparam):
        #some code here

The result is an ImportError "cannot import name view2". Can anyone tell me why this happen?

Answer 1

The second import shadowing the first one... Try like

import app2.otherview 

or

from app2.views as app2_views 

Answer 2

You can't do this because makes a loop. You must add functions in another file and import in app1 and app2 separately.