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

Question

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'.

Answer 1

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})