Unable to import view in Django project

Question

I am starting a very basic Django project (using PyCharm IDE in the process). This is what I do initially.

1. cd into my workspace directory and run django-admin.py startproject mysite . This creates the following directory structure:

2. Run cd mysite , followed by python manage.py runserver . This works as expected, and I am able to view the standard localhost served page in my browser.

3. Now I need to add another directory called customviews inside mysite , and inside that add a file called myview.py with a basic method that returns a HTTPResponse object. Now the folder structure is this:

4. Now I want to map URL to this view, so I head off to the urls.py module, and try to import the method in the view I just created. It shows as unimportable. So I add the path to the PyCharm IDE specified Python path here and mark mysite as src folder:

5. Now the PyCharm errors are gone, and I am able to import like this: from myview import current_datetime . However, the command line, where I started the server in the 2nd step throws error, and consequently the mapping fails and so does the page I want to load

Please help me fix this error!

PS I have previously worked with Django on Eclipse, I never faced this kind of issue. This is my urls.py code:

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf.urls import *
from myview import current_datetime

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),

]

Answer 1

Can you please us the code of the file where you want to import the view? I think you have missed to create a __init__.py inside the customviews folder?

Answer 2

You shouldn't add that directory to the path.

You have two issues: firstly, as adriansq points out, you need an empty __init__.py in that directory. And secondly, it is in the wrong place; it should be one level higher, directly under the outer mysite directory.