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 in advance!

I'm having the same problem on snow leopard

This is the solution that has helped me: Plan.B: ImportError: No module named django.core

It's for 64bit Ubuntu 10.04 though; tell me if it helps you...