I am getting the following error in my error logs:
TemplateSyntaxError: Caught ImportError while rendering: No module named south
I did "easy_install South" to install South on my server, but I still get the error.
South is listed under INSTALLED_APPS of my settings.py as just 'south'. I think that it is not able to find 'south'. How do I figure out the location of where 'south' is installed and give my settings.py the full path?
I think that my python path in httpd.conf is not including the path where south is. How do I find out where south is located?
I found that if you are using a virtual environment like pinax you have to install it in your virtual environment and not your computer. So you would first get the environment going:
- annasob$ source pinax-env/bin/activate
and then do:
- (pinax-env)annasob$ sudo pip install south
If you want to find out where south is installed you could search your disk for south.
With Linux you could do this a few ways, you could use find or locate (make sure your locate databases is up to date) . On Windows you can use the windows file search. On Mac you can use spotlight.
Since you are not using virtualenv, then the files are most likely installed in a site-packages directory, and I'm pretty sure, but I could be wrong, the site-packages are normally on the sys path.
If you have more then one version of python installed on your machine, it might be possible, that you installed into one version and then are running mod_wsgi using a different one.
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I'm working my way through the tutorials in William S. Vincent's Django for Beginners. Everything worked fine until Chapter 4 (the Message Board app), when like a nOOb I ran into the known bug that causes Django's web server to crash when attempting to serve /admin/ using Python 3.7.* in pipenv. So, I upgraded Python to 3.8.2, and it still didn't work. So I foolishly deleted 3.8.2 and rolled back to 3.7.6, and now I can't install Django at all with pipenv due to a variety of pipenv.exceptions.ResolutionFailure statements.
I've reinstalled Python 3.7.6 AND 3.8.2, pip3, pipenv and Django (through Anaconda as well as outside of it), but I'm still getting the same litany of errors that won't let Django be installed in my virtual environment. Using pipenv lock --pre --clear doesn't fix it.
The telling line is "ERROR: No matching distribution found for django-3-0"
Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this or what packages I need to uninstall/reinstall?
Thanks much! :)
Manually delete the whole pipenv cache directory,
~/.cache/pipenv - (Linux)
%LOCALAPPDATA%\pipenv\pipenv\Cache - (Windows)
Also delete the previous virtualenvs which were created within the .virtualenvs folder. (or the entire folder)
Default location: C:\Users\{username}\.virtualenvs
Also delete Pipfile.lock file and then recreate your virtual environment:
pipenv shell
Well, good news! On a hunch, and to rule-out any weirdness, I tried recreating a clean Django install by using virtualenv, since pipenv is giving me problems. It worked! I must have borked something with pipenv when I removed/re-added/re-removed Python 8.x. Thanks for your inspiration for this workaround, #Magicoder!
I installed Python 2.7 on SLES 11 box that previously was running Python 2.6. To do so I used a script described in this post and run it as a root user. Everything went well but when it was done I discovered few issues:
No symbolic links were created and no path updated so I had to manually update the path to link to the new installation bin directory /opt/python2.7/bin
Everything runs good until I switch from root to the normal user at which point Python shell runs but some modules I installed such as PyYAML are missing. Again, these are OK when I run Python as root
As a regular user I'm not able to run pip, easy_install and wheel. For pip I get ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
P.S. Following #user suggestion I tried adding the following path taken from sys.path of the root user to .bashrc which did not fix the problem
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt/python2.7/lib/python27.zip:/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7:/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2:/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk:/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old:/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload:/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages:/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyYAML-3.11-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg:/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pexpect-4.2.0-py2.7.egg:/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ptyprocess-0.5.1-py2.7.egg
Credible / official sources: no reply from official forum. Apart from the SO-link you mentioned, there is also https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7644/how-to-do-a-binary-install-of-python-2-7-on-suse-linux-enterprise-server-11, which sketches the way to do it described in Installing Python 2.7 on SLES 11 (SO is not official, is it? ;-)
Concerning your problem: both 2. and 3. might be caused by elements lacking in sys.path.
To test this, type
import sys; sys.path
both in user and root python and check for differences. These need to be merged. Try using PYTHONPATH first to test this, but be aware that there are different methods how to adjust sys.path.
If you just need to fix this for normal (non-daemon) users, adjusting the system-wide bash profile would be an easy solution.
(Any questions/feedback is welcome... :-)
I am quite a django n00b, but I am reading the eyes out of my head to get it all going. I have a PHP background and struggle with the way and location of reusable apps.
I thought that installed apps should go in an App folder (example django-registration or django-profiles), but after I PIP the app in my virtualenv, I see that the app is installed in a Django folder names "site packages".
Is this the default behavior? Should I copy the 'registration' or 'profile' folder from site packages to my Project? or should I leave them there
Thanks for the help.
If you're intending to simply install packages and not amend their code, there's no problem with them living in Python's site-packages dir.
Because you're using virtualenv, the packages installed while that virtualenv is active will be stored in:
/path/to/virtualenvs/myvirtualenv/lib/python2.x/site-packages/
And it's completely fine for them to stay there. As Daniel R says, what matters is that they are your PYTHONPATH, and virtualenv takes care of making sure they are.
Custom apps you write go in your project. Installed apps you just want to import from into your custom apps can stay in the site-packages folder.
This has nothing to do with Django. This is where Python installs packages. Django doesn't care where they are, as long as they're on the Pythonpath (which they are if they're in site-packages).
I've got a version of a module (South 0.6) installed system-wise and a newer version installed in my home. When I add 'south' to my INSTALLED_APPS, it uses the system-wise version. How can I tell Django to use the version in my home?
Thanks
Jul
Virtualenv (and virtualenvwraper) is definitely your friend for handling things like this when you are able to create a new environment. You should go ahead and play with it. If you are not able to mess around with virtualenv right now, you can just put your personal python lib path at the front of PYTHONPATH:
# from your command prompt:
$ export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/your/python/libs:$PYTHONPATH
There is a package named virtualenv which was designed to handle this specific problem. It allows you to create a virtual environment for each python project (ie. Django project), letting you choose which version of a module is installed.
Trying to upload my django app on my obunto slice. The problem I'm facing right now there are a couple of packages I'm using. Which I installed in site packages on my machine. Now when I put them online on the server their sadly not working. Any ideas how to make them work.
p.s I get a error on import
Python must have a way to find these packages. Did you use standard installation procedures for them (i.e. setup.py install) or copy them in an accessible directory? If you didn't use setup.py install, check your PYTHONPATH environment variable. It should contain the directory where your packages are stored. If it doesn't, you can create it.
This is a Python issue really, not a Django issue.
To get more help paste the import error you're getting, as well as the directory structure of where you installed this package.