django ViewDoesNotExist

Question

I'm getting a weird error and I can't track it down. The stack trace doesn't give any clue as to the location of the error either. It's just giving me the standard urlresolvers.py ViewDoesNotExist exception. Here is the error message:

Could not import myapp.myview.views. Error was: No module named model

At first I thought I forgot to put an "s" on models somewhere in my code, but after a search of the entire codebase, that is not the case.

Here's the trackback:

File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response
  91.                         request.path_info)
File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py" in resolve
  216.                     sub_match = pattern.resolve(new_path)
File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py" in resolve
  216.                     sub_match = pattern.resolve(new_path)
File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py" in resolve
  216.                     sub_match = pattern.resolve(new_path)
File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py" in resolve
  123.             return self.callback, args, kwargs
File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py" in _get_callback
  132.             raise ViewDoesNotExist("Could not import %s. Error was: %s" % (mod_name, str(e)))

Exception Value: Could not import myapp.myview.views. Error was: No module named model

Answer 1

From what you've posted, it seems like the error is in myapp.myview.views.

You already mentioned looking for misspellings of "models", which is good. You might also try asking Django to validate your models to ensure that they are properly importable (run this in your Django project root):

python manage.py validate

Beyond that, just keep following the imports in myapp.myview.views until you see something odd. You can check to see if everything is properly importable by opening a shell:

python manage.py shell

And attempting to import and/or try things from there.

Beyond that, someone may be able to assist you more if you post the full traceback. Good luck!

Answer 2

I have been having the same error, and I solved my problem. If you have a forms.py, ensure that all your forms fields are valid. For some reason, if your forms.py file has form field errors, then it causes this exception.