ImportError: Couldn't import Django

Question

I\'ve already configured virtualenv in pycharm, when using the python manage.py command, this is error shown:

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Answer 1

You can use python3 to run file, if you don't want to use virtualenv.python3 manage.py runserver

To install python3 look at this page

Answer 2

I solved this problem in a completely different way.

Package installer = Conda (Miniconda)
List of available envs = base, djenv(Django environment created for keeping project related modules).

When I was using the command line to activate the djenv using conda activate djenv, the base environment was already activated. I did not notice that and when djenv was activated, (djenv) was being displayed at the beginning of the prompt on the command line. When i tired executing , python manage.py migrate, this happened.
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual environment?

I deactivated the current environment, i.e conda deactivate. This deactivated djenv. Then, i deactivated the base environment.
After that, I again activated djenv. And the command worked like a charm!!

If someone is facing a similar issue, I hope you should consider trying this as well. Maybe it helps.

Answer 3

In case you have virtual env activated, django installed, django-admin --version prints the valid version - check if there is no circular import in the file you are executing.

Answer 4

Looks like you have not activated your virtualenv when using the runserver command.

Windows: <virtualenv dir>\Scripts\activate.bat

Linux: source <virtualenv dir>\bin\activate

You should see (name of virtualenv) as a prefix to your current directory:

(virtualenv) E:\video course\Python\code\web_worker\MxOnline>python manage.py runserver

Answer 5

When you install Django on your computer all things go fine but when you install a Virtual environment it gets separated from all things. You will know it's importance when you will make a final project and deploy it to any cloud or hosting.

Just reinstall Django in the virtual environment and baam:

pip install Django

and then just run the command for testing:

python manage.py runsever

and you are all done.

Answer 6

windows :

1. (virtualenv dir)\Scripts\activate # this step to activate virtualenv

2. you should be in the dir of (project name)

3. python manage.py runserver