[Django]-Import Error: No module named django

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To check your path, you can use the following code:

import sys     
print(sys.path)

If you already know where django is installed, it should be easy to test if the desired directory is in your path with directory in sys.path.

Regarding where your PYTHONPATH is defined, note that it’s an environment variable, so you can check its value (if defined) with: echo $PYTHONPATH

👤jcollado

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I had the same error, and this fix my issue

python -m pip install django

🙂 Done!

👤accimeesterlin

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Under linux, you can set the PYTHONPATH environment variable in your .profile or .bashrc. You can either edit it directly from the terminal by changing to your home directory (cd ~), and then edit the file (nano .bashrc), or by opening the file with gtkedit or vim or whatever, and add:

PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:/another/path/etc

If you want to test this before editing your profile, you can export this from the terminal as:

export PYTHONPATH=/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

I’m assuming you’re running this straight from the command line. If you’re running it as a wsgi module in apache, you can add this to your syspath from your wsgi file as:

import sys
sys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages')
👤Adam Morris

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try

pip freeze

this command show which packages are installed in your system
then run with root privilege

pip install django

then create a new project with command

django-admin.py startproject mysite

then start your project

cd path/to/mysite
./manage.py runserver

in file wsgi.py add this lines

import os
import sys
DJANGO_PATH =  os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), '..')
sys.path.append(DJANGO_PATH)
👤Dimitris Kougioumtzis

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Try printing sys.path to see what’s in your path. Django need to be in one of the dirs listed. Example on Windows:

>>> import sys
>>> for p in sys.path: print p

C:\Python27\Lib\idlelib
C:\Windows\system32\python27.zip
C:\Python27\DLLs
C:\Python27\lib
C:\Python27\lib\plat-win
C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk
C:\Python27
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages
>>>
👤Mariusz Jamro

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django went missing with an upgrade to python 3.7

pip3 install django

fixed the problem.

👤700L

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If you are using a environment use:

$ <environment_location>/<environment_name>/bin/python manage.py runserver
👤Leonardo Ramírez

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python3 -m django --version1

for me it was that^

👤smatthewenglish

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I also had same error but easily solved it .those who are using version 4 and above of Django and python 3.0 can do the following(for windows)

pip install virtualenv #installs virtual environment in pc

py -m venv myvenv #creates virtual environment named myvenv inside folder

myvenv/Scripts/activate # activates the virtual environment

You are now ready to go.

pip install django # pip install django

python -m django –version # checks the version of installed django

👤Captain

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