How to import and run a django function at the command line

Question

I have a Django function "get_data_from_text_file()" that I want to test run from the command line. I tried:

>>> import v1.views
>>> get_data_from_text_file("kk")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'get_data_from_text_file' is not defined

Why is it not defined if its imported sucessfully?

Answer 1

First of all make sure you're using manage.py shell and not plain python in the command line to make this test.

You're not importing the get_data_from_text_file function, but all the view. You could either use:

v1.views.get_data_from_text_file("kk")

or try to do the import like this:

from v1.views import get_data_from_text_file