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Bishwas Bc
Bishwas Bc

Reputation: 29

in django import error occurred as module not found

I was doing simple form handling.My project name is 'mysite' and i created the folder 'books' using startapp.I made one folder called 'templates' inside 'mysite' folder.Inside 'templates', i made one html file of search form and its name is 'search_file.html'. The code to made that html file is written below.

<html>
<head>
    <title>Search</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form action="/search/" method="get">
        <input type="text" name="q">
        <input type="submit" value="Search">
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Then, i wrote the following code in views.py which is located inside 'books' folder.

from django.shortcuts import render

def search_form(request):
    return render(request, 'search_form.html')

After that i wrote code in urls.py which is located in 'mysite' folder as below.

from mysite.books import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',

    url(r'^search-form/$', views.search_form),

)

My file tree is shown below:

The main folder is 'mysite' and within this:

- books

    - __init__.py
    - admin.py
    - models.py
    - tests.py
    - views.py

- mysite

    - __init__.py
    - settings.py
    - urls.py
    - wsgi.py

- templates

    - search_form.html

- manage.py

But, when i run in browser then the error appeared mentioning these things.

ImportError at /search-form/

No module named books

What is the solution for this error?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 17367

Answers (3)

Philip
Philip

Reputation: 11

After 8 Years i had the same Problem :D

The Solution from Ciprian Tarta worked for me. But i only needed to change "mysite.settings" to "settings" in the manage.py file

I used Django version 3.2.9 and Python version 3.9.9

Upvotes: 1

Ciprian Tarta
Ciprian Tarta

Reputation: 494

The best solution would be to just move your "books" package inside mysite/mysite/ and add books to your settings.INSTALLED_APPS

But if you want to keep it like that then:

Your main "mysite" folder is not a python package. This means you need to add init.py in the main folder, see bellow:

You should have:

mysite/
    books/
        __init__.py
        admin.py
        models.py
        tests.py
        views.py

    templates/
        search_form.html

    __init__.py
    settings.py
    urls.py
    wsgi.py      
    manage.py

Edit manage.py and replace mysite.settings with settings

Edit settings.py and replace ROOT_URLCONF = 'mysite.urls' with ROOT_URLCONF = 'urls' and WSGI_APPLICATION = 'mysite.wsgi.application' with WSGI_APPLICATION = 'wsgi.application'

Add <path to>/templates to your settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS

Add books to your INSTALLED_APPS

Edit wsgi.py and replace mysite.settings with settings

Now you should be able to do from books import views

Also as you can see, you can then remove mysite/mysite folder

Upvotes: 2

Rodolphe
Rodolphe

Reputation: 858

Did you create a file called __init__.py in your folder books ?

Upvotes: 0

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