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Md Ravin
Md Ravin

Reputation: 13

ImportError: cannot import name 'forms' from 'basicapp'

form.py:

from django import forms

class FormName(forms.Form):
    name=forms.CharField()
    email=forms.EmailField()
    text=forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)

views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render
from .forms import forms

def index(request):
    return render(request,'basicapp/index.html')

def form_page(request):
    Form = forms.FormName()
    return render(request,'basicapp/form_page.html',{'form':Form})

I dont know what is wrong here! when I run server, it makes an error, saying ImportError : cannot import name 'forms' from 'basicapp'.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3234

Answers (3)

Jibril14
Jibril14

Reputation: 19

You made two mistakes in your code

1) Your form file should be named forms.py and not form.pY
2) your views.py import code should be

    from django.shortcuts import render
    from basicapp import forms

Upvotes: 0

Nandan Rana
Nandan Rana

Reputation: 539

There is an issue in your view.py

replace below line

from .forms import forms

with

from <your app name>.forms import forms

You are getting this error because django is trying to find it in root folder where your manage.py exist.

Upvotes: -1

Rob Vezina
Rob Vezina

Reputation: 638

First of all, it looks like you have named your forms file, form.py and you are trying to access a module called forms. Rename form.py file to forms.py.

Second, you are trying to import forms from your forms file. This is actually referencing forms you imported via from django import forms. You have a couple options here. In your view file you can either import .forms or from .forms import FormName I prefer the latter.

So, after you rename form.py to forms.py I would rewrite views.py to look like this:

from django.shortcuts import render
from .forms import FormName

def index(request):
    return render(request,'basicapp/index.html')

def form_page(request):
    this_form = FormName()
    return render(request,'basicapp/form_page.html',{'form':this_form})

Upvotes: 2

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