ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.

[ayayalar]

Hello I am new to Django.

I am trying to exercise "templates" through the interactive shell,
however I end up getting this error. Can anyone help?

here is the exact steps I follow:

1) cd C:\Django\mysite

manage.py
settings.py
settings.pyc
urls.py
urls.pyc
views.py
views.pyc
__init__.py
__init__.pyc

2) set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mysite.settings I've also tried set
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings.py

3) python


4) >>> from django.template import Template
>>> t = Template("My name is {{ name }}.")

5) ERROR: ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because
environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.

[Karen Tracey]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:10 PM, ayayalar <ayay...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello I am new to Django.

I am trying to exercise "templates" through the interactive shell,
however I end up getting this error. Can anyone help?

here is the exact steps I follow:

1) cd C:\Django\mysite

   manage.py
   settings.py
   settings.pyc
   urls.py
   urls.pyc
   views.py
   views.pyc
   __init__.py
   __init__.pyc

2) set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mysite.settings I've also tried set
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings.py

Setting it to mysite.settings will work if c:\django is on your PYTHONPATH.

Setting it to settings.py won't work at all because of the .py.  Assuming you are running the python from c:\django\mysite, setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to just 'settings' will work.  Or, use 'python manage.py shell', which assumes settings.py is in the current directory and sets the environment up for you.

Karen

[ayayalar]

Thank you for the reply Karen. your suggestion worked just fine.

On Nov 10, 9:29 pm, "Karen Tracey" <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: