Problem Making New Django project - please help

[Shashwat singh]

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/django-admin.py", line 5, in <module>

    management.execute_from_command_line()

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 385, in execute_from_command_line

    utility.execute()

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 345, in execute

    settings.INSTALLED_APPS

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 46, in __getattr__

    self._setup(name)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 42, in _setup

    self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)

  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 98, in __init__

    % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e)

ImportError: Could not import settings 'my_project.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Is there an import error in the settings file?): No module named my_project.settings

PLEASE HELP WITH THIS 

[Daniel Roseman]

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 09:59:30 UTC, Shashwat singh wrote:

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PLEASE HELP WITH THIS 

Nobody can possibly help with this. This is a random error message. What were you doing when you got it? What did you type at the command line? What code do you have already?

And, please do not shout.

--

DR.

[Florian Schweikert]

On 2014-12-02 10:59, Shashwat singh wrote:
> ImportError: Could not import settings 'my_project.settings' (Is it on
> sys.path? Is there an import error in the settings file?): No module
> named my_project.settings
>
> PLEASE HELP WITH THIS

there is not enough information to see the cause of the problem

what command did you run?
what was your cwd?
what does your project dir structure look like?

-- Florian

[Shashwat singh]

Django is properly installed but when i try to create a new project --- " django-admin.py startproject abc " it returns ^^ that error. 

Any help will be highly appreciated.

[Shashwat singh]

Django is properly installed but when i try to create a new project --- " django-admin.py startproject abc " it returns ^^ that error. 

I've tried almost everything, but nothing seems to fix that.

[Collin Anderson]

Hi,

That is quite odd. Do you have the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE set in your shell environment? (you shouldn't).

What version of Django are you using?

Are you doing this from your home directory?

Collin

[Florian Schweikert]

starting new project with name abc throws the my_project.settings not
found? Then there is something wrong with the env_variables of your shell.

-- Florian

[jogaserbia]

Are you trying to set it up in a virtualenv?  

[Shashwat singh]

Django version -- 1, 7, 1

And yes doing this from my home directory.

[Shashwat singh]

No , it used to work perfectly on osx mavericks, then i did some stuff with opencv and since then i'm getting that error. I've tried each n every solution available on internet but nothing seems to solve that problem :/

[Collin Anderson]

Hi,

Is your DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE set in your environment? You may need to clear that out before running django-admin.py

Something like one of these:

unset DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE= django-admin.py startproject

env -u DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE django-admin.py startproject

Collin