ImportError: No module named django.core

[illuminated]

Hi all,

I guess this is a PATH/PYTHONPATH error, but my attempts failed so far
to make django working.

System is Ubuntu 10.04, 64bit. Python version: 2.6.5:

@mx:~/webapps$ python -V
Python 2.6.5


When I run django-admin.py, the following happens:

mx:~/webapps$ django-admin.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py", line 2, in <module>
from django.core import management
ImportError: No module named django.core


Similar when I import django in python shell:

mx:~/webapps$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import django
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named django
>>> quit()


More details:

mx:~/webapps$ python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import
get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"

/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages


Within python shell:

Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django', '/usr/local/lib/
python2.6/dist-packages/django/bin', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-
packages/django', '/home/petra/webapps', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/
lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/
python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/
python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL', '/
usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6']


django-admin.py can be found here:

mx:~/webapps$ locate django-admin.py
~/install/sources/Django-1.2.1/build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/django/bin/
django-admin.py
~/install/sources/Django-1.2.1/build/scripts-2.6/django-admin.py
~/install/sources/Django-1.2.1/django/bin/django-admin.py
/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/bin/django-admin.pyc



And, in the end, this doesn't help:

export PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django:
$PYTHONPATH"


nor this:

export PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django:
$PYTHONPATH"


How to solve this!? Googling for couple of hours, I know I'm missing
something painfully obvious, but my mind is just blocked at the
moment...
If you need more details, I'd be happy to provide.

Thanks all in advance!

[Nuno Maltez]

Well, it seems that your python lib is at /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages:

> mx:~/webapps$ python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import
> get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"
>
> /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages

but django is in "local" - /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages

> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py

So have you tried adding /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
(directory that holds the django module) to your pythonpath?

Nuno

[illuminated]

Hi Nuno,

Thanks for helping, but it turned out it has nothing to do with the
PYTHONPATH but with access rights of the /usr/local and /usr/local/lib
(http://blog.petrovic.gr/lang/en-us/2010/05/importerror-no-module-
named-django-core/)


Thanks,