Django - Import views from separate apps

Question

I\'m new to Django and working my way through \"The Django Book\" by Holovaty and Kaplan-Moss. I have a project called \"mysite\" that contains two applications called \"books\

Answer 1

Disclaimer: Not a Django answer

The problem is with these two lines:

from books import views
from contact import views

The second import is shadowing the first one, so when you use views later you're only using the views from contact.

One solution might be to just:

import books
import contact

urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
(r'^search/$', books.views.search),
(r'^contact/$', contact.views.contact),
...

I'm not sure, but I also think that you don't actually need to import anything and can just use strings in your pattern, something like: 'books.views.search'.

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Another possiblity is to follow Simon Visser suggestion:

from books.views import search
from contact.views import contact