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

Asked By: MenoTx

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Answers:

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 By: Druta Ruslan

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

Answered By: Juanse

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 By: jxmorris12
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 By: Venkatesh Gotimukul

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

Answered By: Vinh Tuong Luu

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

from django.contrb.auth.views import LogoutView

Answered By: SaiPra Manik

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 By: Connor Johnson
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