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Shreyansh Lodha
Shreyansh Lodha

Reputation: 83

How to use external python script in django views?

If suppose I have a file full of functions in python naming basics.py which does not have a class inside it. and there's no __init__() function too. Now if I want to access the functions of basics.py inside the views.py . How can I do that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6490

Answers (2)

Grimmy
Grimmy

Reputation: 4137

This is a common mistake because python 3 have stricter rules when it comes to relative imports.

I assume you have a structure like this.

myapp
├── basics.py
└── views.py

.. where myapp is in the root of your project.

Let's assume basics.py looks like this.

def do_stuff():
    pass

The ways you can import things from basic would then be (views.py)

from myapp import basics
from myapp.basics import do_stuff
from . import basics
from .basics import do_stuff

# View code ...

I assumed here that basics.py and views.py are located in the same package (app).

When you run a python project your current directory is added to the python path. You will either have to import all the way from the root of your project or use . to import from the local package/directory.

Also notice in the example that you can import the entire module or just single functions/objects. When importing the entire basics module you access it using basics.do_stuff() in the view.

Upvotes: 2

Mattia
Mattia

Reputation: 1129

use:

import basics

than use all the functions you want :)

Upvotes: 0

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