LayerMapping no longer available?

[Flavio Coelho]

Hi I have used the layermapping method described in the wiki to import
shapefiles into the database, now it is giving an error:

In [1]: from django.contrib.gis.utils import LayerMapping
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call
last)

/home/fccoelho/<ipython console> in <module>()

ImportError: cannot import name LayerMapping


what's the current way to import LayerMapping?

thanks in advance,

Flávio

[Ariel Mauricio Nunez Gomez]

Flavio,

Can you try the following and let us know what's the output:

>>>from django.contrib.gis.gdal import HAS_GDAL

>>>print HAS_GDAL

[Flávio Codeço Coelho]

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the output is "True"

Ariel Mauricio Nunez Gomez wrote:
> Flavio,
>
> Can you try the following and let us know what's the output:
>

>>>>from django.contrib.gis.gdal import /HAS_GDAL/
>>>>print HAS_GDAL
>
> >
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[Ariel Mauricio Nunez Gomez]

Ok, the way you are using to import LayerMapping should work, but the problem is that the import there masks any other errors that may appear:

http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/gis/utils/__init__.py

10	try:
11	# LayerMapping requires DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to be set,
12	# so this needs to be in try/except.
13	from django.contrib.gis.utils.layermapping import LayerMapping
14	except:
15	pass

Please, try ti import it directly and see what happens:

from django.contrib.gis.utils.layermapping import LayerMapping

Regards,
Ariel

[patrick91]

I've the same problem, first I tried this code:

>>>from django.contrib.gis.gdal import HAS_GDAL
>>>print HAS_GDAL

and the result was:
True

Also I tried this code:
>>> from django.contrib.gis.utils.layermapping import LayerMapping

and the result was:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.5.egg/
django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py", line 119, in <module>
from django.contrib.gis.models import GeometryColumns,
SpatialRefSys
ImportError: cannot import name GeometryColumns

thanks for any help :)

[Ariel Nunez]

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Django-1.0.2_final-py2.5.egg/
django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py", line 119, in <module>
   from django.contrib.gis.models import GeometryColumns,
SpatialRefSys
ImportError: cannot import name GeometryColumns

Have you verified your db has a spatial_ref_sys and a geometry_columns table?

[Sourabh]

I've the same problem, first I tried this code:

>>>from django.contrib.gis.gdal import HAS_GDAL
>>>print HAS_GDAL

and the result was:

FALSE

Let me know what should i do in this case

I also tried to use try except but was getting below error-

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting DATABASES, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANG
O_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

i have properly set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE value but still getting above error.

Can you please help.

Regards,
Sourabh

[Claude Paroz]

Le dimanche 15 septembre 2013 à 11:02 -0700, Sourabh a écrit :
> I've the same problem, first I tried this code:
> >>>from django.contrib.gis.gdal import HAS_GDAL
> >>>print HAS_GDAL
>
> and the result was:
> FALSE
>
> Let me know what should i do in this case

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs/#can-t-find-gdal-library

> I also tried to use try except but was getting below error-
>
> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting
> DATABASES, but settings are not configured. You must either define the
> environment variable DJANG
> O_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing
> settings.
>
> i have properly set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE value but still getting
> above error.

This is more django-users territory, not GIS specific. You might get
more support by asking on IRC channels (#django for example).

Good luck!

Claude
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