Why am I getting this error in Django?

Question

I have a script that imports a models.py from an app, but it will not import! I don\'t believe I am supposed to manually create an \"export DJANGO...\" environment variable...I\

Answer 1

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