Question

I have the following directory structure:

The directory name is test_app

|-- __init__.py
|-- manage.py
|-- models.py
|-- views.py

I have a very basic question to ask, i place the following values inside my __init__.py

alpha = "123"
beta = "546"

How do i get the value of alpha and beta inside models, views and manage?
i tried the following:

from . import alpha

from test_app import alpha

both of them did not work, how do i do it?

Answer 1

__init__.py is usually empty and indicates that files in your directory, in this case test_app can be imported. You could put your values in another .py file (example: constants.py) and do the following:

|-- __init__.py
|-- manage.py
|-- models.py
|-- views.py
|-- constants.py

Then import your constants:

from test_app import constants

The contents of constants.py would be

alpha = "123"
beta = "546"

Then you would be able to use what ever values you stored in constants

print(constants.alpha)
print(constants.beta)