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    <p>I'm working through <a href="http://effectivedjango.com/" rel="nofollow">Effective Django's</a> tutorial series. I'm currently having an issue trying to create a custom form to use in an app. I created the forms.py file as instructed in <a href="http://effectivedjango.com/tutorial/forms.html" rel="nofollow">this part of the tutorial</a>, and made the alterations to my views.py file. My directory structure looks like this: </p> <pre><code>(project root) | ├── address.db ├── addressbook │   ├── __init__.py │   ├── __pycache__ │   ├── settings.py │   ├── static │   ├── urls.py │   └── wsgi.py ├── contacts │   ├── __init__.py │   ├── admin.py │   ├── forms.py │   ├── models.py │   ├── templates │   ├── tests.py │   └── views.py ├── manage.py └── requirements.txt </code></pre> <p>The problem is that when I try to load the site I get the following error:</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/wtodom/.virtualenvs/tutorial/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 101, in get_response resolver_match = resolver.resolve(request.path_info) File "/Users/wtodom/.virtualenvs/tutorial/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 318, in resolve for pattern in self.url_patterns: File "/Users/wtodom/.virtualenvs/tutorial/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 346, in url_patterns patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module) File "/Users/wtodom/.virtualenvs/tutorial/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 341, in urlconf_module self._urlconf_module = import_module(self.urlconf_name) File "/Users/wtodom/.virtualenvs/tutorial/lib/python3.3/importlib/__init__.py", line 90, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1586, in _gcd_import File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1567, in _find_and_load File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1534, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 586, in _check_name_wrapper File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1024, in load_module File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1005, in load_module File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 562, in module_for_loader_wrapper File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 870, in _load_module File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 313, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/Users/wtodom/.virtualenvs/tutorial/addressbook/urls.py", line 4, in &lt;module&gt; import contacts.views File "/Users/wtodom/.virtualenvs/tutorial/contacts/views.py", line 5, in &lt;module&gt; import forms ImportError: No module named 'forms' </code></pre> <p>Line 5 is the line in views.py where I import the forms.py file. The code snippet (with a few lines of buffer) is:</p> <pre><code>from django.shortcuts import render from django.views.generic import ListView, CreateView, UpdateView, DeleteView, DetailView from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse from contacts.models import Contact import forms class ListContactView(ListView): model = Contact template_name = 'contact_list.html' </code></pre> <p>As you can see from the directory tree, the forms.py file should be accessible. I'm not sure why I'm getting the error. Any ideas?</p> <h3>Edit 1</h3> <p>I tried changing the import to <code>from forms import ContactForm</code> before posting originally. I still got the same error:</p> <pre><code> File "/Users/wtodom/.virtualenvs/tutorial/contacts/views.py", line 5, in &lt;module&gt; from forms import ContactForm ImportError: No module named 'forms' </code></pre>
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    1. CONotice how you are doing `from contacts.models import` and not `from models`. Do that same thing with forms and it will work. **Edit:** or just look at twil's answer.
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    2. CO@yuvi I tried before posting. I still get the same error. I'll update the main post to reflect this.
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    3. COCan you add some details? how does forms.py look, what os you are using, etc. etc. Something's really off here.
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