Read a local file in django

Question

I\'m quite stuck on this one! I am writing a Django view that reads data from an external database. To do this, I am using the standard MySQLdb library. Now, to load the da

Answer 1

Keep the file in django project root and add the following in the settings.py file.

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

Then in the view do this.

import os
from django.conf.settings import PROJECT_ROOT

file_ = open(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'filename'))

Update:

In newer Django versions BASE_DIR is already defined in the settings.py file. So you can do the following.

import os
from django.conf import settings

file_ = open(os.path.join(settings.BASE_DIR, 'filename'))