Question

I almost finish my django web aplication, but i never using shell for it. It is hard to checking some things by making changes in code, restarting server and reloading page. But I can’t configure django settings environment or something like this.
I do:

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=my_project.settings

Then:

import os

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'my_project.settings'

Then I try:

>>> os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE']
'my_project.settings'

But when I try:

>>> python
>>> import urls

I get:

ImportError: Could not import settings 'my_project.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named mysite.settings

And when I try:

>>> django-admin.py shell

I get:

Error: Could not import settings 'my_project.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named mysite.settings

I am frustrated because of that. The server that I am using have mod_passanger. Does someon know what is the reason of problem? Maybe mod_passanger? Or I am doiung something wrong?

Answer 1

You shouldn’t need to do any of this. The manage.py script does it all for you, which is why you should always use it (instead of django-admin.py) once you’re inside a project.

Just do this:

./manage.py shell

That’s it.