django runscript error: no (valid) module for script 'main' found

Question

I wrote some code to run ... but i had a error while running my code. So I tested some simple code like this... but it still doesn't work.

def run():
  print("test")

Error message looks like:

which says no (valid) module for script 'main' found. How can I fix it?

user_9387984 · Answer

Running Extra scripts in Django:

Create scripts directory in your root project, next to manage.py:
```
$ mkdir scripts
```
Add an empty file init.py (double underscore) into your /scripts directory:
```
$ touch scripts/__init__.py
```
The init file is necessary so that the folder is picked up as a python package.

This is probably what you're missing.
Add your scripts into /scripts directory:
```
$ touch scripts/main.py
```
After you edited your main.py script, run it with:
```
$ python manage.py runscript script-name
```
Note: You shouldn’t include .py when specifying the script to run