django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting LOGGING_CONFIG, but settings are not configured

Question

I\'m trying to run a populate script which I put together from the tango_with_django tutorial (https://github.com/leifos/tango_with_django/blob/master/tango_with_django_project/

Answer 1

It happened to me when I used django related import statement in a non-django module.
i.e from index.views import view that did raise an error for me.

Answer 2

If you're running PyCharm, what worked for me was to invalidate the cache and restart the app.

File => Invalidate Caches / Restart ...

My virtualenv had been recently updated from Python 3.6 or 3.7 to 3.8.