Reputation: 141
New to django, I am trying to understand this error. The forms is in the folder of the project. My forms.py is importing from django forms.
class LoginForm(forms.Form):
email = forms.EmailField(label='Courriel')
password = forms.CharField(label='Mot de passe',
widget = forms.PasswordInput)
My views.py is importing LoginForm
I don't know why I am getting this error?
Thanks
Upvotes: 8
Views: 26240
Reputation: 1949
It sounds like it should be working, you might want to post the full error and more of your code. Something like this should be working
# forms.py
from django import forms
class LoginForm(forms.Form):
email = forms.EmailField(label='Courriel')
password = forms.CharField(label='Mot de passe',
widget = forms.PasswordInput)
and the views
# views.py
from forms import LoginForm
from django.shortcuts import render
def someview(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
login_form = LoginForm(data=request.POST)
if login_form.is_valid():
# do something when valid
else:
login_form = LoginForm()
return render(request, 'login.html', {'login_form': login_form})
where you have a folder structure like
/app/
forms.py
views.py
Upvotes: 5
Reputation: 4818
You're probably importing LoginForm
in views.py as following:
from forms import LoginForm
Change that to
from .forms import LoginForm
Upvotes: 13