Can I import a function from a file in a folder with Django as I would do with the models or views?

Question

In Django 3.0 , instead of putting all your models in a single models.py file like usual:

my_project/
├── my_project/
└── my_app/
    ├── models.py
   ...

You can create a models/ folder and put each model in a separate file and call normally after adding it to an __init__.py file.

my_project/
├── my_project/
└── my_app/
    ├── models/
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   ├── my_models_file.py
    │   └── my_other_models_file.py
   ...

The models/__init__.py should look like something like this:

from .my_models_file import *
from .my_other_models_file import *

And my models.MyExampleModel in my my_models.py can be called normally in my other files like this:

from .models import MyExampleModel


# My code

This is also possible with the views .

Here is my question:
Is it possible to proceed the same way with non-Django related files?

I have several functions in my views.py which are not views . They don't render anything. These are simple python functions used to make some of them reusable.

# My imports


# My view rendering something


def my_function(arg):
    # Do something


def my_other_function(arg):
    # Do something

I would like to put them in a folder and put each function in a separate file. Having something like this:

my_project/
├── my_project/
└── my_app/
    ├── my_functions/
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   ├── my_functions_file.py
    │   └── my_other_functions_file.py
   ...

I tried to import this with something like that without success.

from my_functions.my_functions_file import my_function

def new_function():
    my_function(arg)

Is there a similar way to proceed? The purpose of it is to keep the files as clean and readable as possible. I don't like having a lot of not-view related functions in my views.py and I would like to put them in their own folder.

Thank you for your help. Ask for more information if I wasn't clear.

Answer 1

use this

from my_app.my_functions.my_functions_file import my_function