Django Tutorial - ImproperlyConfigured exception (pytz isn't installed)

Question

I\'m currently working through the official Django tutorial using version 1.6.1 and version 2.7.5 of python on OSX. I\'m working on part 2, which is the admin interface. When I

Answer 1

After continuing to search for django and pytz, I found the 1.6 Django release notes, which mention that you must now install pytz to work with Sqlite3 if USE_TZ=True in your settings.py.

I don't know what effect USE_TZ has on your application, but setting that value to False allows me to proceed in the tutorial. I would hope that the Django tutorial is updated to reflect this change.

Answer 2

The solution is very simple..

pip install pytz

and then stop and restart your server

Answer 3

I was also getting the same error. I installed pytz

$ pip install pytz

and then i restarted the server. The exception is no more now.

Answer 4

I had same error, then I installed pytz with pip install pytz and again had same error until I restarted WSGI instance. (eg. touching wsig.py (touch wsgi.py) or restarting apache (apache2ctl restart)