[Fixed]-'module' object has no attribute 'views' django error

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In the second project you’ve probably already imported the auth.views module before calling auth.views.login. Python stitches your imported modules when it can.

For example, this will work

>>> from django.contrib.auth.views import login #or from django.contrib.auth import views
>>> from django.contrib import auth

>>> auth.views.login
<function login at 0x02C37C30>

The first import doesn’t even have to mention the login view. This will also work.

>>> from django.contrib.auth.views import logout
...
#then import auth.views.login

The following won’t because python does not know of the views module since it isn’t registered in auth.__init__.py

>>> from django.contrib import auth

>>> auth.views.login
...
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'views'
👤vikki

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In the first import (from django.contrib.auth.views import login), the dot syntax is traversing the module hierarchy. In the urlpattern access (auth.views.login), the dot-syntax is doing property (ie. class) lookup. From my shell_plus, you can see that “auth” doesn’t have a views property.

In [1]: from django.contrib import auth

In [2]: auth.<TAB FOR COMPLETION>
auth.BACKEND_SESSION_KEY      auth.load_backend
auth.ImproperlyConfigured     auth.login
auth.PermissionDenied         auth.logout
auth.REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME      auth.models
auth.SESSION_KEY              auth.re
auth.authenticate             auth.rotate_token
auth.forms                    auth.settings
auth.get_backends             auth.signals
auth.get_permission_codename  auth.tokens
auth.get_user                 auth.user_logged_in
auth.get_user_model           auth.user_logged_out
auth.hashers                  auth.user_login_failed
auth.import_by_path

This is why it’s giving you an error. It really shouldn’t work if you’re trying that in another project/file either — unless your other project’s auth.__init__.py is auto-loading its submodules.

👤Travis D.

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