[Django]-Why am I getting this error in Django?

You need to properly import your settings file. If you don’t import the django environment variables first, your import will fail as you’ve noticed. You need to code something like:

import os

# Set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable.
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "myproject.settings"

#do your stuff

from command line ran “python manage.py shell” should include the right settings for you and give you the python prompt.

One alternative to messing about with the environment is to just write your script as a Django custom management command, which takes care of setting up the environment for you (along with other things like option parsing, etc).

From command line, please execute this command. This may help you:

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=projectname.settings

I had this similar error, and I realized that I forgot to create the file “init.py” in to the app folder:

myapp:
    manage.py
    myapp:
        __init__.py
        settings.py
        ....