Python from django.contrib.auth.views import logout ImportError: cannot import name 'logout'

Question

I have configured my python env with python 3.5, but I am getting the following error when I run my server with the command python manage.py runserver

from django.contrib.auth.views import logout
ImportError: cannot import name 'logout'

this is my config

dj-database-url==0.5.0
Django==2.1a.1
gunicorn==19.8.1
numpy==1.14.3
psycopg2==2.7.4
pytz==2018.4
whitenoise==4.0b4

I tried reinstalling my env and changing python version but issue stills happening.

Thanks for your questions guys

Since django-1.11, the login, logout, etc. function-based views have been rewritten to (class-based views)[https://stackoverflow.com/a/51906537/2351696] — suhailvs, Mar 27 '19 at 08:49

score 27 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '19 at 16:13

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ImportError: cannot import name 'login' from 'django.contrib.auth.views'

I had this error and looked up for a solution found it here. Remove views from import

Works for me in Python 3.7 and Django 2.2. No need to downgrade to Django 2.0.4(as LTS is in 2.2)

It was this one that caused me the error.

from django.contrib.auth.views import login

Had to change it to

from django.contrib.auth import login

Worked for logout too.

answered Apr 19 '19 at 16:13

Venkatesh Gotimukul

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@MenoTx asked about logout, so the working change that worked for me is: from django.contrib.auth import login – sunsetjunks Oct 22 '19 at 17:10
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@sunsetjunks you mean logout? LOL – User Nov 12 '20 at 02:50
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right, my bad. You can guess this from my context :) – sunsetjunks Nov 12 '20 at 15:58

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 03 '18 at 17:41

Hey looks like you are using the wrong django version, django.contrib.auth.views.logout is not available in your current django version, try downgrading your django version to a lower version with this command: sudo pip install Django==2.0.2 or change the import in order to use logout_view

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 10 '20 at 00:16

settings.py

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = '/'

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib.auth.views import LogoutView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^logout$', LogoutView.as_view(), name='logout'),
]

it's work for me on django 3.0.x

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 03 '18 at 17:39

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this is for django 2.x, docs

from django.contrib.auth import logout

def logout_view(request):
    logout(request)
    # Redirect to a success page.

answered Jun 03 '18 at 17:39

Druta Ruslan

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 23 '19 at 20:04

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This is the code I added to urls.py to get login working:

def my_logout(request):
    logout(request)
    return redirect('index')

along with urlpatterns:

path('logout/', my_logout, name="logout"),

Works for me in Python 2.7, Django 2.1.5!

answered Mar 23 '19 at 20:04

jxmorris12

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cannot import name 'my_logout' from 'account.views' this kind of error are seen, whenever i tried the code as above. – Uday Raj Karki Mar 30 '20 at 08:17

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 03 '21 at 17:25

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In the latest version of Django (django == 3.2.4) the import should be the following

from django.contrb.auth.views import LogoutView

answered Jun 03 '21 at 17:25

SaiPra Manik

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score -1 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 28 '23 at 15:10

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Pyhton is very case sensitive... make sure your code lines up with proper whitespace. I go this error and make functions created in views.py were not aligned

answered Jan 28 '23 at 15:10

Connor Johnson

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