django KeyError: "'name' not in globals"

Question

I've created an model Girl When I open python console and write from .models import Girl I get an error:

>>> from .models import Girl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: "'__name__' not in globals"

What do I do?

score 35 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 20 '17 at 01:30

35

Did you try putting the app name before ".models"?

>> from [app_name].models import Girl

answered Mar 20 '17 at 01:30

user3750325

2

Could you please explain how it fixes this problem? – dylan_fan Jun 19 '18 at 11:17
8

`.models` tries to import from `models.py` in the current directory, which if using Django shell, is the project directory. But `models.py` is actually located in the app directory. – gengkev Jun 19 '18 at 21:59

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