Question

I’m trying to create and run a project.

I used the following article:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/?from=olddocs

When I’m running the following command

C:\django\mysite>python manage.py runserver

This error shows up:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 14, in <module>
    execute_manager(settings)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager
    utility.execute()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 379, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 261, in fetch_command
    klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 67, in load_command_class
    module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name))
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\staticfiles\management\commands\runserver.py", line 4, in <module>
    from django.core.management.commands.runserver import BaseRunserverCommand
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py", line 8, in <module>
    from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\wsgi.py", line 10, in <module>
    from django import http
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\http\__init__.py", line 117, in <module>
    from django.core import signing
ImportError: cannot import name signing

Answer 1

Here is what I would do.
Try to use virtualenv.
there might be some old python modules that mess up your django for some reason.
So use virtualenv to create a fresh python.
and install django with pip install.
if it solves the problem its definetely your system python that is messing things up a little bit.