Django: 'Module' object has no attribute '__file__'

Question

I\'m setting up a new dev environment on a Windows box, and after successfully installing Python and django, I cloned my repository on the new machine.

After running

Answer 1

Update for Python 3.X

While you can import modules without an __init__.py file present,

The __init__.py files are required to make Python treat the directories as containing packages

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html

Without __init__.py, the module has no __file__ attribute.

example/
|-- mod1
|   `-- __init__.py
`-- mod2


>>> import mod1
>>> mod1.__file__
'/tmp/example/mod1/__init__.py'
>>> import mod2
>>> mod2.__file__
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
AttributeError: module 'mod2' has no attribute '__file__'