How to import python function from another file into django views

Question

I am trying to call a function from a python file that is located outside the django project directory from views.py. I have tried importing the python file but running the django server says "no module named xxxx".

Tree structure is given below.


├── auto_flash
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── test.py
└── fireflash
    ├── detection_reports
    │   ├── admin.py
    │   ├── admin.pyc
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   ├── __init__.pyc
    │   ├── migrations
    │   │   ├── __init__.py
    │   │   └── __init__.pyc
    │   ├── models.py
    │   ├── models.pyc
    │   ├── __pycache__
    │   │   └── __init__.cpython-35.pyc
    │   ├── templates
    │   │   └── detection_reports
    │   │       └── home.html
    │   ├── tests.py
    │   ├── views.py
    │   └── views.pyc
    ├── fireflash
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   ├── __init__.pyc
    │   ├── __pycache__
    │   │   ├── __init__.cpython-35.pyc
    │   │   └── settings.cpython-35.pyc
    │   ├── settings.py
    │   ├── settings.pyc
    │   ├── ui_cgi.py
    │   ├── urls.py
    │   ├── urls.pyc
    │   ├── wsgi.py
    │   └── wsgi.pyc
    ├── __init__.py
    └── manage.py

Project name here is "fireflash" and there is an app in that project named "detection_reports". There is another directory named "auto_flash" that has same location as "fireflash". What I want to do is to import test.py file from "auto_flash" in detection_reports.views and call a function from views. Importing like this "from auto_flash import test" throws error "no module named auto_flash".

Can you provide a "file tree" with the relevant files (and their directories)? — Willem Van Onsem, Dec 24 '18 at 19:01
Possible duplicate of [How import a function from another view with Django?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47676426/how-import-a-function-from-another-view-with-django) — sahasrara62, Dec 24 '18 at 19:17
A similar question was posted [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36622183/how-to-import-a-function-from-parent-folder-in-python) — Alouani Younes, Dec 24 '18 at 23:45
I have tried the solutions suggested above but none of them worked. Anyone with clean/proper solution.? — Asad Ali, Dec 25 '18 at 11:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 26 '19 at 08:18

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Move auto_flash to fireflash
In detection_reports add from auto_flash import test.py

edited Jun 26 '19 at 08:18

dKen

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answered Dec 26 '18 at 17:51

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 26 '19 at 08:18

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I have tried all of the above mentioned solutions, but the cleaner solution was to append the path for auto_flash to syspath and the issue was resolved. Thanks to all of you for the efforts.

edited Jun 26 '19 at 08:18

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answered Dec 31 '18 at 09:55

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How to import python function from another file into django views

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