ImportError Couldn t import Django

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I ve already configured virtualenv in pycharm  when using the python manage py command  this is error shown   E  video course Python code web worker MxOnline gt python manage py runserver Traceback  most recent call last     File  manage py   line 17  in  lt module gt       Couldn t import Django  Are you sure it s installed and   ImportError  Couldn t import Django  Are you sure it s installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable  Did you forget to activate a virtual environment    How should I fix it  I ve installed django

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I was having great difficulties with this but I have solved my issue. I am on Windows 10 using Vagrant ssh in my virtualenv environment, the box I have installed is ubuntu/xenial64, Django version 2.1, python==3.6.

When I was installing packages I was using pip3 but most importantly I was using sudo and the -H flag to install these packages. When I ran sudo pip3 freeze my packages would come up, but when I ran a plain pip3 freeze there would be no packages.

Then I tried the python3 manage.py startapp <YOUR APP NAME> and it did not work same error as you.

I finally thought to try sudo python3 manage.py startapp <YOUR APP NAME> it finally worked!

Hope this was help :)

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You can use python3 to run file  if you don t want to use virtualenv python3 manage py runserver  To install python3 look at this page

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I solved this problem in a completely different way   Package installer   Conda  Miniconda  List of available envs   base  djenv Django environment created for keeping project related modules     When I was using the command line to activate the djenv using conda activate djenv  the base environment was already activated  I did not notice that and when djenv was activated   djenv  was being displayed at the beginning of the prompt on the command line  When i tired executing   python manage py migrate  this happened  ImportError  Couldn t import Django  Are you sure it s installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable  Did you forget to activate a virtual environment    I deactivated the current environment  i e conda deactivate  This deactivated djenv  Then  i deactivated the base environment  After that  I again activated djenv  And the command worked like a charm    If someone is facing a similar issue  I hope you should consider trying this as well  Maybe it helps

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Instead of creating a new virtual environment  you just have to access to your initially created virtual environment when you started the project    You just have to do the following in your command line    1 pipenv shell to access the backend virtual environment that you have initially created    2  Then  python manage py runserver  Let me know if it works for you or not

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you need to go to the root directory  and run the below command   source bin activate   Once the above command is executed  you will be able to create custom apps

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The problem is related to this error  Execution Policy Change Start virtualenv by running the following command  Command Line C    Users   Name   yourdjangofilesname  gt  myvenv   Scripts   activate NOTE  On Windows 10  you may receive an error by Windows PowerShell that the implementation of these scenarios is disabled on this system  In this case  open another Windows PowerShell with the  quot Run as Administrator quot  option  After that  try typing the following commands before starting your virtual environment  C  WINDOWS system32 gt   set-executionpolicy remotesigned Execution Policy Change  The execution policy helps protect you from scripts that you do not trust  Changing the execution policy might expose you to the security risks described in the about Execution Policies help topic at http   go microsoft com fwlink  LinkID 135170  Do you want to change the execution policy   Y  Yes   A  Yes to All   N  No   L  No to All   S  Suspend      Help  default is  quot N quot    A After selection Y es    close the Powershell admin window  and then go back to the Powershell Window where you got the error  and run the command again   gt  myenv Scripts activate and then python manage py runserver 8085      8085 or any number if you want to change its default port to work on otherwise you dont need to point out anything

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Looks like you have not activated your virtualenv when using the runserver command   Windows   lt virtualenv dir gt  Scripts activate bat  Linux  source  lt virtualenv dir gt  bin activate  You should see  name of virtualenv  as a prefix to your current directory    virtualenv  E  video course Python code web worker MxOnline gt python manage py runserver

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If you are working on a machine where it doesn t have permissions to all the files and moreover you have two versions such as default 2 7  amp  latest 3 6 then while running the command use the python version with the command  If the latest python is installed with sudo then run the command with sudo   exp   sudo python3 6 manage py runserver

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When you install Django on your computer all things go fine but when you install a Virtual environment it gets separated from all things  You will know it s importance when you will make a final project and deploy it to any cloud or hosting  Just reinstall Django in the virtual environment and baam  pip install Django  and then just run the command for testing  python manage py runsever  and you are all done

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You need to use both commands  pip install django and pip3 install django that worked for me

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In case you have virtual env activated  django installed  django-admin --version prints the valid version - check if there is no circular import in the file you are executing

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I had same problem  I installed all dependencies with root access   In your case  sudo pip install django In my case  I had all dependencies in requirements txt  So  sudo pip3 install -r requirements txt

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I also face the same problem in windows 10 with anaconda For me anaconda3 Scripts gt activate  it s working good  What you have to do you just need to go to anaconda home      AppData Local Continuum anaconda3 Scripts   and you need to open a cmd prompt and type activate   It will activate the venv for you

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You need to install Django  this error is giving because django is not installed   pip install django

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I faced the same problem when I was doing it on windows 10  The problem could be that the path is not defined for manage py in the environment variables  I did the following steps and it worked out for me    Go to Start menu and search for manage py  Right click on it and select  copy full path   Go to your  My Computer  or  This PC   Right click and select  Properties   Select Advanced settings  Select  Environment Variables   In the lower window  find  Path   click on it and click edit  Finally  click on  Add New   Paste the copied path with CTRL-V  Click OK and then restart you CMD with Administrator privileges    I really hope it works

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If you are using python 3 use py in front of cmd code  like this   py manage py runserver

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Check that you have installed Django  by executing import django in python  you mustn t see ModuleNotFoundError if everything s ok  Check that you have installed virtualenv  by executing virtualenv --version  you must see the version number if everything s ok  Check that you have enabled virtualenv  there s got to be the name of your virtualenv in your command prompt starting line  enable it by source bin activate  also  remember to deactivate it every time your job is finished with the virtualenv    Check that your virtualenv includes django  a virtualenv by default has no modules installed  you either have to install django in your virtualenv  even if you have it in your machine already  or use virtualenv --system-site-packages when creating a virtualenv to include system site packages in the virtualenv  Add django to your path  open python  import django  then run django to see django s path  then add it to your    bashrc  or    zshrc if you re using zsh   more info in here Install django-admin by running pip install django-admin

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if you don t want to deactivate or activate the already installed venv just ensure you have set the pythonpath set  set pythonpath C  software venv include C  software venv lib C  software venv scripts C  software venv tcl C  software venv Lib site-packages   and then execute    pythonpath    venvpath Scripts mytestsite manage py runserver   ipaddress   8000

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windows      virtualenv dir  Scripts activate       this step to activate virtualenv you should be in the dir of  project name  python manage py runserver

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To create a virtual environment for your project  open a new command prompt  navigate to the folder where you want to create your project and then enter the following   py -m venv project-name This will create a folder called    project-name    if it does not already exist and setup the virtual environment  To activate the environment  run  project-name Scripts activate bat    The virtual environment will be activated and you   ll see     project-name     next to the command prompt to designate that  Each time you start a new command prompt  you   ll need to activate the environment again  Install Django Django can be installed easily using pip within your virtual environment  In the command prompt  ensure your virtual environment is active  and execute the following command   py -m pip install Django

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find your django parent dir path and add it to PYTHONPATH  In my case  my django parent dir path is  Library Python 3 7 site-packages add this line into    bash profile  export PYTHONPATH  Library Python 3 7 site-packages   else if you have PYTHONPATH already  just append it like this  export PYTHONPATH   PYTHONPATH   Library Python 3 7 site-packages   then   source    bash profile

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I faced the same issue  and in my case it was because I had multiple python versions on my machine  in addition to the Anaconda ones  In my case django didn t worked well with my anaconda python  I knew that when I run import django on each python terminal for all versions I have   As a summary here are the steps I made to get this solved    Run the CMD as Admin Create a project folder  Create a new ENV for this new project INSIDE THE PROJECT Folder     pip install virtualenv  gt  gt  virtualenv new env   Activate it      new env Scripts activate   After the env activation   Install Django    python -m pip install Django    The python version you used here in step 5 will determine which python will to work with this installed Django

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I think the best way to use django is with virtualenv it s safe and you can install many apps in virtualenv which does not affect any outer space of the system vitualenv uses the default version of python which is same as in your system to install virtualenv sudo pip install virtualenv  or for python3 sudo pip3 install virtualenv  and then in your dir  mkdir   newproject cd   newproject  Now  create a virtual environment within the project directory by typing virtualenv newenv  To install packages into the isolated environment  you must activate it by typing  source newenv bin activate  now install here with pip install django  You can verify the installation by typing  django-admin --version  To leave your virtual environment  you need to issue the deactivate command from anywhere on the system  deactivate

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