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Asked: 2026-06-04T22:20:01+00:00

The full error is: ImportError: Could not import settings ‘app.settings’ (Is it on sys.path?):

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The full error is:

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

The whole time, 

python manage.py runserver

had been working fine, and DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE was never defined previously – that is not the issue here, since I’m running manage.py which should set this itself.

The problem occured after I added some imports – runserver immediately stopped working. I also can’t do validate – nothing works. Setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE doesn’t help, either, although that’s what the error is suggesting.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Adding toplevel imports of internal django functions can break django in really non-obvious ways.

    from django.core import context_processors

    was in a file that was imported into settings.py pretty early, which caused this error.

    In my opinion, django could use a better way to detect this type of problem. The line which caused the problem didn’t show up in the traceback at all.

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