'python manage.py migrate' command gives error even after installing south

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puneet pandey

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Nov 21, 2013, 11:41:13 PM11/21/13
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I was going through Django tutorials and found the command - 'python manage.py migrate' to give output as 'unknown command' . So i searched for it and found that its most probably due to 'south' not installed. i checked it on python shell by giving the command - 'import south' which resulted in 'unknown module'. So I installed south first by using easy_install and then by apt-get and then updated the system. I also went to settings.py and added south in the installed_apps section.

Now when I ran 'python manage.py migrate' command there was an error -
pasting it here -

popo@popo-HP-TouchSmart-tm2-Notebook-PC:~/Django_apps/mysite$ python manage.py migrate
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 399, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 242, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 284, in execute
    self.validate()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 310, in validate
    num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/validation.py", line 34, in get_validation_errors
    for (app_name, error) in get_app_errors().items():
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 196, in get_app_errors
    self._populate()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 75, in _populate
    self.load_app(app_name, True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 99, in load_app
    models = import_module('%s.models' % app_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 40, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/home/popo/Django_apps/mysite/polls/models.py", line 5
    Class Question(models.Model):
                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax










what can i do to solve this issue.
Thanks a lot everyone for reading this and helping me out.

James Turley

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Nov 22, 2013, 7:46:12 AM11/22/13
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line 5, models.py - you've capitalised Class. It should just be 'class', all lower case.

JT


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Nigel Legg

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Nov 22, 2013, 7:49:49 AM11/22/13
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Check the documentation for south and go through the tutorial at http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial/part1.html -  you need to do an initial migration, and then an auto migration.  Also, the taceback you posted says there is a syntax error in the question model....

Cheers, Nigel
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