Question

I’m on Chapter 4: Templates of the Django tutorial, and I’m trying to run the following in an Emacs inferior mode using Python:

>>> from django import template
>>> t = template.Template('My name is {{ name }}.')
>>> c = template.Context({'name': 'Adrian'})
>>> print t.render(c)
My name is Adrian.
>>> c = template.Context({'name': 'Fred'})
>>> print t.render(c)
My name is Fred.

But I get the error here.

A quick search suggests that I should do be setting my DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE like so:

>>> import os
>>> os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "settings.py"

However, I run into this error:

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

I’m using Fedora 16. How do I correctly resolve this problem?

Answer 1

You can do this in the python manage.py shell, since that would have settings.py in . directory.

Otherwise:

Consider settings.py just another python library and you need to ensure its added to sys.path and then you can do as follows :

import settings
from django.core.management import setup_environ

setup_environ(settings)  # Setting up the env settings

This sets up the settings to your environment. [ This is the right way ]

There is no secret recipe in settings.py and since django in itself is a library to python, so it could not be default set any paths to your sys.path unless imported and executed – as I suggested.