I have created a separate file test.py to interface with Azure Key Vault. When I run just the test.py file it works as expected. However, I cannot import it in settings.py for its values to be used there. I cannot import any file into settings.py for that matter or it causes an internal 500 error on Apache.

For instance I want to add these lines to my settings.py

import test
Pass = test.Pass

However, when adding that and restarting the Apache server is gives an error 500 page until I remove the lines and restart. test.py has no syntax errors because I can run it on its own and produce the result I am looking for but bringing any file into settings.py causes the crash. The error logs have been no help. Why would I not be able to import a file into settings.py?

The file I am importing is successful a part of the PYTHONPATH variable and I have checked that by printing sys.path. Also the file is located in the same directory as settings.py

mysite/

settings,py
test.py
urls.py
wsgi.py
init.py

The error from the server logs reads

ValueError: client_id should be the id of an Azure Active Directory application\r, referer: http://test.example.com/test/login/

However, this when I test the file individually it works as expected successfully connecting to Azure and doing the work it needs a retrieves and prints a correct password. This error is only caused when importing it in setting.py

CodePudding user response：

Not sure whether it works, but can you rename the file to __init__.py in mysite directory, and import test.py like following

from mysite import test

CodePudding user response：

Whether absolute imports work depends on the directory the python interpreter is running from. I've had trouble with PYTHONPATH before too. Have you tried from . import test ?