KeyError when importing config.ini file into Management Command folder and running manage.py (Django)

Question

I have the follow structure.

members
├── management
│   │── __init__.py
│   │── commands
│       │── active.py
        │── whatsapp.py
        │── config.ini

I am trying to run a whatsapp api and I have all my authentication data stored in a config.ini file. However, when I run python manage.py active I get the following error message.

C:\Users\timmeh\source\Python Projects\Django Projects\env\myproject\topxgym>python manage.py active
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\timmeh\source\Python Projects\Django Projects\env\myproject\topxgym\manage.py", line 22, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Users\timmeh\source\Python Projects\Django Projects\env\myproject\topxgym\manage.py", line 18, in main
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "C:\Users\timmeh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 446, in execute_from_command_line   
    utility.execute()
  File "C:\Users\timmeh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 440, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "C:\Users\timmeh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 402, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "C:\Users\timmeh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 448, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "C:\Users\timmeh\source\Python Projects\Django Projects\env\myproject\topxgym\members\management\commands\active.py", line 20, in handle
    msg = WhatsApp(name, phone, date)
  File "C:\Users\timmeh\source\Python Projects\Django Projects\env\myproject\topxgym\members\management\commands\whatsapp.py", line 14, in __init__
    self.authorization = self.config['Auth']['Authorization']
  File "C:\Users\timmeh\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\configparser.py", line 964, in __getitem__
    raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: 'Auth'

The code works fine if I move it to a separate folder and run the whatsapp.py file directly.

active.py file

from turtle import update
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
from members.models import ActiveMember
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from .whatsapp import WhatsApp


class Command(BaseCommand):
    help = 'Deactivate expired memberships!'

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        ActiveMember.objects.filter(end_date__lt=datetime.now().date()).update(status='2')
        expired_memberships = ActiveMember.objects.filter(end_date=datetime.now().date())
        
        for expired in expired_memberships:
            name = expired.member.full_name
            phone = expired.member.phone
            date = expired.end_date
            
            msg = WhatsApp(name, phone, date)
            msg.send_message()

whatsapp.py file

import requests
from configparser import ConfigParser
from datetime import datetime


class WhatsApp():
    def __init__(self, name, phone, date):
        self.required_len = len(name) + 2
        self.config = ConfigParser()
        self.config.read('config.ini')
        self.name = name.center(self.required_len)
        self.phone = add_suffix(self, phone)
        self.date = date
        self.authorization = self.config['Auth']['Authorization']
        self.token = self.config['Auth']['Token']
        self.phone_number_id = self.config['Auth']['phone_number_id']
        self.whatsapp_business_account_id = self.config['Auth']['whatsapp_business_account_id']

        
    def send_message(self):
        
        headers = {
            self.authorization: self.token,
        }

        json_data = {
            "messaging_product": "whatsapp",
            "recipient_type": "individual",
            "to": self.phone,
            "type": "template",
            "template": {
                "name": "customer_expire",
                "language": {
                    "code": "en-us",
                },
                "components": [
                    {
                        "type": "body",
                        "parameters": [
                            {
                                "type": "text",
                                "text": self.name,
                            },
                            {
                                "type": "date_time",
                                "date_time": {
                                    "fallback_value": str(self.date)
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            }
        }

        response = requests.post(f'https://graph.facebook.com/v14.0/{self.phone_number_id}/messages', headers=headers, json=json_data)
        print('response = ', response)
        print('response.status_code = ', response.status_code)
        print('response.text = ', response.text)
        
        
def add_suffix(self, number):
    number = number.lstrip('0')
    if number[0] == '2':
        return '64' + number
    elif number[0] == '6' and number[1] == '4':
        return number
    else: return None

Answer 1

For anyone that is having similar problem with Management Command. I placed my config.ini in main dir where my manage.py file is and that solved the problem.