ImportError: No module named django.core.managemen

Question

I'm trying to run python manage.py runserver on a Django application I have and I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 8, in <module>
 from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ImportError: No module named django.core.management

Here is the output of pip freeze | grep -i django to show I do in fact have Django installed:

Django==1.6.5
django-cached-authentication-middleware==0.2.0
django-cors-headers==1.1.0
django-htmlmin==0.7.0
django-static-precompiler==0.9
djangorestframework==2.3.14

Also, trying to run /usr/local/bin/python2.7 manage.py runserver yields the same error.

Answer 1

To fix my problem I used the following line in my .zprofile:

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

I was trying to import Django and it couldn't be found, and doing the above solved the issue.

Answer 2

The direct problem is that django package is missing. For me, as I was running django in virtualenv, this problem occurs after I rename my working directory.

Reinstalling the env worked for me.

Answer 3

I found that I could import the django module from the python interpreter, but django-admin.py could not import it when run from the command line.

I confirmed that I was using the python interpreter in my virtual environment.

I was using a 64-bit version of python. Uninstalling, and installing the 32-bit version, then re-creating my venv solved this for me.

Answer 4

in where your django file resides, check the first line of django-admin.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python

If you use python 3+, python here may refers python2 here. So check which python you install django with.

ls -l $(which -a python3)

If you do have python3 installed and not linked as python, change the first shebang line into

#!/usr/bin/env python3

Answer 5

i solved this problem by installing django inside the virtual enviromment that i was working on

Answer 6

If you use virtualenv and run manage.py runserver in windows system, cmd will use system's python, not the python in virtualenv. Because If you install python in system, cmd will automatically use python that installed in system, not the python in virtualenv. So if you use virtualenv in Windows. you need run

>python .\manage.py runserver