Question

I’m working my way through a django tutorial http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/python-tutorials/python-from-scratch-creating-a-dynamic-website/ . Following the directions in the template section, I have added:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    "F:/firstblog/blog/templates",

Which is the full path.

I’m getting the following error output:

Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Django Version: 1.4.3
Exception Type: ImportError
Exception Value:    
No module named blog
Exception Location: f:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\importlib.py in            import_module, line 35
Python Executable:  f:\python27\python.exe
Python Version: 2.7.3

My installed apps are:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

I’d appreciate any advice on how to fix this,

Thank you,

Bill

Answer 1

you should also take a look at the tutorial included in django docs for the parts that may not be covered in the one you found.

you may need to modify settings.py and add the blog app to INSTALLED_APPS to solve the ImportError. This is covered in the activating models section of the tutorial.

EDIT: here is what seems to be needed to solve the ImportError you had.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'blog', # <------ your app here.
     ...
 }