I have downloaded anaconda and Django, but VS code shows
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?
so, I check out Get out of root conda environment and Problem with django after installing anaconda, installed django in virtual environment. Then follow https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/install/. But I can't check out version by''' django-admin.py --version''' it shows command not found: django-admin
According to what you describe, I believe that you didn't activate the env or you don't have one in your directory, run this command py -m venv env && .\env\Scripts\activate then python -m pip install Django to create an env and activated and install Django if you have an env in your directory you need to activate using this .\env\Scripts\activate and then install Django finally run server Django using py manage.py runserver should works.
You're getting that error because you're calling django with the system's python and not the one inside your virtualenv.
Activate your virtualenv and then type:
python -m pip install django
That's it! Django will be recognized.
Also, when wanting to check django version, just simply do:
django-admin --version
without the .py piece
Remember to always call python inside your virtualenv. Let's say, like so:
python .\manage.py runserver
I have created a virtual environment on which I ran the following command to install Zeep (I am on macOS Big Sur):
pip3 install zeep
To verify if I have correctly installed it I ran:
pip3 freeze
And I can see in the list :
zeep==4.0.0
However, when I run my script using flask run I get the following error:
I have flask installed and activated my virtualenv:
What I don't understand is that when I go directly on python from the command line it does import zeep :
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Two things come to my mind with this problem.
Make sure the venv is activated
source /venv/bin/activate
Make sure flask is installed after activating the venv.
pip install Flask
You are running in an Anaconda/Conda virtual environment, this can be seen from your command prompt. Conda is a package management platform like, but separate to, Pip.
When you install a package with Pip it is not available in an Anaconda virtual environment.
Also you need to take note of where you are actually installing packages to when you run pip. If you run pip outside of a virtual environment then it is going to install packages into your system Python which is not a good thing.
I have flask installed and activated my virtualenv:
How are you activating the virtual environment? Your third screenshot shows the Anaconda installation of Python.
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>python manage.py runserver
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 17, in <module>
"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.
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
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.
You need to install Django, this error is giving because django is not installed.
pip install django
You need to use both commands:
pip install django and pip3 install django
that worked for me
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
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
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 :)
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 & 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
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 >> 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.
after activating virtual env that error raises up on ubuntu.
and I solve this issue just by typing again :
pip3 install Django
inside the directory which is I want to create a new app.
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
Make sure you have Django installed by writing this command :
python -m django --version
if it's not installed you can install it by writing this command :
pip install django
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
Looks like you have not activated your virtualenv when using the runserver command.
Windows: <virtualenv dir>\Scripts\activate.bat
Linux: source <virtualenv dir>\bin\activate
You should see (name of virtualenv) as a prefix to your current directory:
(virtualenv) E:\video course\Python\code\web_worker\MxOnline>python manage.py runserver
windows :
(virtualenv dir)\Scripts\activate # this step to activate virtualenv
you should be in the dir of (project name)
python manage.py runserver
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
I also face the same problem in windows 10 with anaconda
For me anaconda3\Scripts>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.
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
The problem is related to this error: Execution Policy Change
Start virtualenv by running the following command:
Command Line
C: \ Users \ Name \ yourdjangofilesname > 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 "Run as Administrator" option. After that, try typing the following commands before starting your virtual environment:
C:\WINDOWS\system32> 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 "N"): 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.
> 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. )
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
Just sync your pipenv environment with:
pipenv sync
I had this problem with Django 3.
On manage.py detail the execute_from_command_line import.
You should have:
from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
Instead of
from django import execute_from_command_line
I had the same problem and my solution was not posted here:
How I got the error
My error came whenever I was installation the requirements.txt file with pip (let's say from cloning a git repository).
Solution
I manually installed each of the modules in the requirements.txt + any other module needed for the installation of those modules (e.g: I got errors and some modules where missing to install other modules so I had to add them too).
If there is anyone who faced with the same problem when using virtual environment and running on MacOS, just try
sudo python manage.py startapp <project_name>
instead of
python manage.py startapp <project_name>
It will solve the problem suprisingly!
I had to install django using the virtual environment pip3 executable directly:
cd [virtual environment folder]/bin
sudo ./pip3 install django
If you already installed Django / configured virtualenv and you still having the error:
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and
available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable?
Try to run the command pipenv shell before start the server with py manage.py runserver
I know there are several questions/answers about this, but I can;t figure out what I should do.
I wanted to get started with Django and installed it with pip install and added Python37 and Python37-32 to my environmental variables, and I guess it worked, because I can run several Python commands in my shell.
But every time I try to
python manage.py runserver
it gives me an error.
I also set up my virtual environment and activated it, but I think there's a problem with Django. But because I installed it with pip install django I know it's there and I can use commands like django-admin startapp ... So I guess Django is working. I don't really know what PYTHONPATH means and where to find it. It would be pretty nice if anybody could take a look at my error.
Here you can see that Django is installed :
#
**C:\Users\Kampet\Desktop\Python-Django\mysite>pip install django Requirement already satisfied: django in c:\users\kampet\appdata\local\programs\ python\python37-32\lib\site-packages (2.2.4) Requirement already satisfied: pytz in c:\users\kampet\appdata\local\programs\py thon\python37-32\lib\site-packages (from django) (2019.2) Requirement already satisfied: sqlparse in c:\users\kampet\appdata\local\program s\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages (from django) (0.3.0)**
# And thats my error
**C:\Users\Kampet\Desktop\Python-Django\mysite>python manage.py runserver
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 10, in main
from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 21, in <module>
main()
File "manage.py", line 16, in main
) from exc
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available o
n your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual env
ironment?**
###################
Here is where my virtual environment is located.
Python-Django
-----------------mysite
-------------------------main
-------------------------mysite
-------------------------manage.py
-----------------venv
-------------------------Include
-------------------------Lib
-------------------------Scripts
-------------------------pyvenv.cfg
This is my manage.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Django's command-line utility for administrative tasks."""
import os
import sys
def main():
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'mysite.settings')
try:
from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
except ImportError as exc:
raise 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?"
) from exc
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
#
I don't know why it can't find the module "django" / django.core.management
I also can't find django.core.management anywhere in my files, but I reinstalled and upgraded django several times. I don't know if this helps you.
Thank you for your time.
On the Windows machine, you should activate venv by this command .\venv\Scripts\activate (please note, you should be in the folder where this venv is)
Then inside activated venv install Django pip install django and in the same terminal run the server python manage.py runserver
I had similar issue in my windows 10 system and solved using pipenv. Steps with commands given below.
cd/Go to the project folder
Setup the virtual environment pipenv install
Activate the virtual environment pipenv shell
Install django pip3 install django
Run the project pipenv run python manage.py runserver
I had similar issue with:
django installed globally
virtual environment setup and activated
django project setup under venv activated
When trying to run the project, it could not import django anyway.
Adding path to manage.py in variables did not help but as mentioned above, installation of django under venv activated actually resolved the issue.
Your case may be different but try this scenario:
Setup venv
Activate venv
Install django
Create django proj
Try to run django proj
try running it in anaconda prompt instead of cmd, that worked for me
This error occurs when you install pip packages as a normal user other than root user. pip install <package name> --user command actually creates a directory called as .local in the users home directory under which the packages are installed.
Fix:
Find the django package installed location sudo find / -name 'django'
Copy the path from find command output.
Create export variable in ~/.bashrc file with PYTHONPATH variable.
Save the file and exit.
Exit from the normal user prompt.
Login again as the normal user.
Run the command env to check the PYTHONPATH variable set in the output.
Run the command python manage.py runserver <ip address: port>
Make sure that you are working on the command prompt.
Use this command '
workon your_env_name
'
Install Python3, Make sure its on PATH, make sure PIP is installed, Install virtualenv with PIP, setup virtualenv, activate virtualenv, install django.
Or you can try to run the command pipenv shell before start the server with py manage.py runserver in vscode terminal.
In my case, I reinstalled python to a global folder on the C drive and by mistake wrote PYTHONPATH With:\Python and not C:\Python\Scripts in global variables, but in local variables it was written correctly
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On Windows, you should activate env by this command .\env\Scripts\activate (please note, you should be in the folder where this env is)
Then inside activated env install Django: pip install django and in the same terminal run the server: python manage.py runserver
I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong, here's what's going on:
I'm running google appengine with django on my local dev
this is happening from within a virtualenv running python2.5
I have installed the mimeparse package using pip install -E for that virtualenv
I have verified this by checking the site packages in my 'something-env/lib/python2.5/site-packages' for the mimeparse.py
running the python shell lets me import mimeparse
running python manage.py shell also lets me import mimeparse
running python manage.py runserver will fail on import mimeparse, but in the pretty django error page I can see that the python path contains the something-env/lib/python2.5/site-packages folder
what can I be doing wrong?
NOTE: copying the mimeparse.py into the project root will work, but that is not exactly pretty.
If you get stuck running Ubuntu, with the following import error: no module named mimeparse, just install it, by adding the following line on your terminal in the appropriate directory :
pip install mimeparse
There is a debian package:
sudo apt-get install python-mimeparse
But, I didn't need to install the debian package. Just the first command and works for me.
Don't forget to activate your env.
source $PYTHON_HOME/activate
My $PYTHON_HOME points to my virtualenv python.