Question

I’m new to python and django but wanted to start following some tutorials. I installed python, then django, and then the pydev plugin for eclipse. I created a new django project and tried running it. In eclipse I set up a run configuration for manage.py with argument runserver and it said “Validating Models” but never said anything else.

I tried running via command line also but got some errors that I didn’t see in eclipse:

C:\Users\JP\workspace\mysite\src\mysite>python manage.py runserver
Validating models...
Unhandled exception in thread started by <function inner_run at 0x02851E30>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.
py", line 48, in inner_run
    self.validate(display_num_errors=True)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 245,
 in validate
    num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\validation.py", lin
e 22, in get_validation_errors
    from django.db import models, connection
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\__init__.py", line 75, in <modul
e>
    connection = connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS]
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 91, in __getitem
__
    backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 32, in load_back
end
    return import_module('.base', backend_name)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\importlib.py", line 35, in im
port_module
    __import__(name)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", line 14
, in <module>
    raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No mo
dule named MySQLdb

I assume it has something to do with my sql setup, but I’m not sure since it’s a blank project and I haven’t written any code yet. I’m more concerned with why nothing showed up in eclipse.

Answer 1

I’m just starting myself. Apparently there’s a MySQLdb plugin (sorry if that’s not the right term) that you need to use in addition to a standard MySQL install. This is so Python can communicate with MySQL.