[Django]-Django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting LOGGING_CONFIG, but settings are not configured

You can insert os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mysite.settings") before the django.setup() line.

If you are getting a similar error after initiating your interaction with Django by running python in a terminal, running python manage.py shell in the appropriate directory may solve your issue.

For development and debugging, you may use the standalone python package.

Install with pip

pip install standalone

Use standalone to use Django from the module.

# add the following to the top of the module.
import standalone
standalone.run('mysite.settings') # replace with your settings module.

# your code goes below the configuration
import os
import sys

# ... .. .  whole module

Now you may run the module as a Python Django script.

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'epl.settings')

should be above

import django

which is you should call django_settings_module before importing and calling django setup.

Hope this is helpful.

If you’re running PyCharm, what worked for me was to invalidate the cache and restart the app.

File => Invalidate Caches / Restart ...

My virtualenv had been recently updated from Python 3.6 or 3.7 to 3.8.

It happened to me when I used django related import statement in a non-django module.
i.e from index.views import view that did raise an error for me.

I met the same problem when setting the environment.

(I tried to add the:

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "my_project.settings")

into the “Starting script window”,which is in the Django Console or rewrite the .wsgi file, But all of them were failed)

My final solution: (open the terminal and set the environment manually)

Here are the steps:(for mac)

1. open the terminal and type vim ~/.bash_profile

2. add below lines:

    PATH=${PATH}:/Users/work/workspace/[virtual_environment]/bin
    PYTHONPATH=${PATH}:/Users/work/PycharmProjects/[project_name]
    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=[project_name].settings
   

3. type :wq to save and exit terminal

4. type source ~/.bash_profile to reload it

it will work when you run python manage.py shell this time.

Make sure to activate your venv first by scripts/activate venv then in your populate_user.py right after import os run os.environ.setdefault(‘DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE’, ‘epl.settings’) this should work.