PointField() Not Working correctly in GeoDjango - django

Question

I have GDAL (using homebrew) and SQLite installed. I would like to create a teacher with a PointField() which stores long and lat values, to know their location. Later I plan on adding the ability to search by distance using something like:
Teacher.objects.filter(location__distance_lte=(your_location,D(m=distance))).distance(your_location).order_by('distance')
models.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.gis.db import models as gis_models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Teacher(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True)
location = gis_models.PointField()
availability = models.BooleanField(default=False)
However, when I run the server, I get the following error:
Unhandled exception in thread started by <function
check_errors.<locals>.wrapper at 0x111c619d8>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py",
line 227, in wrapper
fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py",
line 117, in inner_run
autoreload.raise_last_exception()
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py",
line 250, in raise_last_exception
six.reraise(*_exception)
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/six.py",
line 685, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py",
line 227, in wrapper
fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/__init__.py",
line 27, in setup
apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py",
line 108, in populate
app_config.import_models()
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/apps/config.py",
line 202, in import_models
self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/importlib/__init__.py",
line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 978, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 961, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 950, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 655, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 678, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 205, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/Users/gr/Desktop/PycharmProjects/DjangoWebsite/users/models.py",
line 2, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.db import models as gis_models
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/db/models/__init__.py",
line 3, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.db.models.aggregates import * # NOQA
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/db/models/aggregates.py",
line 1, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.db.models.fields import ExtentField
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/db/models/fields.py",
line 3, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis import forms, gdal
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/forms/__init__.py",
line 3, in <module>
from .fields import ( # NOQA
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/forms/fields.py",
line 4, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.geos import GEOSException, GEOSGeometry
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geos/__init__.py",
line 18, in <module>
HAS_GEOS = geos_version_info()['version'] >= '3.3.0'
File "/Applications/Anaconda/anaconda/envs/DjangoEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geos/libgeos.py",
line 196, in geos_version_info
raise GEOSException('Could not parse version info string "%s"' % ver)
django.contrib.gis.geos.error.GEOSException: Could not parse version info string "3.6.2-CAPI-1.10.2 4d2925d6"

Answer 1

This is a known issue, which has been fixed and will be rolled out in Django v1.11.5.
If you can't wait for 1.11.5 or don't want to run on the dev branch, you can go to a previous version of geos:
brew switch geos 3.6.1