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You can’t just fire up Python and check things, Django doesn’t know what project you want to work on. You have to do one of these things:
- Use
python manage.py shell - Use
django-admin.py shell --settings=mysite.settings(or whatever settings module you use) - Set
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULEenvironment variable in your OS tomysite.settings -
(This is removed in Django 1.6) Use
setup_environin the python interpreter:from django.core.management import setup_environ from mysite import settings setup_environ(settings)
Naturally, the first way is the easiest.
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In 2017 with django 1.11.5 and python 3.6 (from the comment this also works with Python 2.7):
import django
import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mysite.settings")
django.setup()
The .py in which you put this code should be in mysite (the parent one)
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On Django 1.9, I tried django-admin runserver and got the same error, but when I used python manage.py runserver I got the intended result. This may solve this error for a lot of people!
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In my case, I got this when trying to run Django tests through PyCharm. I think it is because PyCharm does not load the initial Django project settings, i.e. those that manage.py shell runs initially. One can add them to the start of the testing script or just run the tests using manage.py test.
Versions:
- Python 3.5 (in virtualenv)
- PyCharm 2016.3.2 Professional
- Django 1.10
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in my own case in django 1.10.1 running on python2.7.11, I was trying to start the server using django-admin runserver instead of manage.py runserver in my project directory.
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For people using IntelliJ, with these settings I was able to query from the shell (on windows).
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