Slacy’s Blog

So, I’ve been doing some Django programming on the side, and the thing that annoys me is that Django forces you to put nearly all your source code into 2 files:  models.py and views.py

Being a reasonable person, I wanted to have a separate file for each view in my system.  In other words, I want to create a views directory, with __init__.py inside, and my view files in there.  Not being a Python expert, I found this harder than expected.  Here’s what you need to do:

1. Create a views directory.
2. Split views.py into one file per method in the new views directory.
3. Edit views/__init__.py and for each view, say “from myview import *”
4. Use your views as you previously did in urls.py

I’ve heard some rumblings that you could create an __init__.py that did something like go through every file in the current directory and import everything there.  That seems a bit over the top, and I’m happy to manage the imports in __init__.py for now.

I believe a very similar technique should work for Models, but I haven’t tested it.