[Answered ]-Django ImportError when attempting to use a setting in a settings directory

It seems like the local.py module imports from base.py, you probably have something like:

from base import *

at the top of your local settings.

But the base.py settings module is not there, hence the error.

It looks like that django is not finding “mysite.settings.local” package because it is not in your PYTHONPATH.

You have to add sys.path in your manage.py file, following should work for you :-

sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))