Django get the static files URL in view

# Older Django <3.0 (also deprecated in 2.0):
from django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles import static

# Django 3.0+
from django.templatetags.static import static

url = static('x.jpg')

url now contains '/static/x.jpg', assuming a static path of '/static/'

EDIT: If you're on Django >=3.0, refer to Django get the static files URL in view instead. This was answered with Django 1.X version.

dyve's answer is good one, however, if you're using "cached storage" on your django project and final url paths of the static files should get "hashed"(such as style.aaddd9d8d8d7.css from style.css), then you can't get a precise url with django.templatetags.static.static(). Instead, you must use template tag from django.contrib.staticfiles to get hashed url.

Additionally, in case of using development server, this template tag method returns non-hashed url, so you can use this code regardless of that the host it is development or production! :)

from django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles import static

# 'css/style.css' file should exist in static path. otherwise, error will occur 
url = static('css/style.css')

From Django 3.0 you should use from django.templatetags.static import static:

from django.templatetags.static import static

...

img_url = static('images/logo_80.png')

here's another way! (tested on Django 1.6)

from django.contrib.staticfiles.storage import staticfiles_storage
staticfiles_storage.url(path)

Use the default static tag:

from django.templatetags.static import static
static('favicon.ico')

There is another tag in django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles (as in the accepted answer), but it is deprecated in Django 2.0+.