[Django]-Relative imports require the 'package' argument

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DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is expected to be a Python module identifier, not a filesystem path. Looking at the django/conf/__init__py file, it seems that a relative path to your settings module won’t work there. You will need to move it below a directory listed in your sys.path, or you should add a parent directory to your sys.path and reference your settings module from there.

👤lanzz

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I came to this question via Google, so I’ll answer what helped me (not directly related to the question).

I use importlib to dynamically import sub-packages given by a string.

import importlib
module_name = 'subpackage.i.import'
special_module = importlib.import_module(module_name, package=None)

This simply has to be adjusted to

import importlib
module_name = 'subpackage.i.import'
special_module = importlib.import_module(module_name, package='my_current_pkg')
👤Martin Thoma

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You can also get this error simply if you have a typo in where you’re specifying your settings file name.

👤Jan Kyu Peblik

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you need to add your project path to sys path just like

sys.path.append("C:\\Users\\ogward\\STUDPROJ") 
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = '../cloud_server.settings'
👤Saurabh Chandra Patel

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  1. may be the settings you set in uwsgi.py is not correct

  2. the settings path in uwsgi.py(XXXX is in the same dir as uwsgi.py):

    os.environ.setdefault(“DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE”, “XXXX.settings”)

👤jammyWolf

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