Home/ Questions/Q 8126115
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-06T07:03:01+00:00

When I try and run django, this is what I get: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python manage.py runserver

  • 0

When I try and run django, this is what I get:

    /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python manage.py runserver 8000
Error: No module named psycopg2.extensions

Process finished with exit code 1

I’ve found other questions with similar problems but none on a mac and none with solutions that help. I get no other errors and I installed psycopg2. Im working in PyCharm. This is my setting file (or the top part of it at least).

ADMINS = (
    # ('Your Name', 'your_email@example.com'),
)

MANAGERS = ADMINS

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
        'NAME': '---',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
        'USER': '---',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
        'PASSWORD': '---',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
        'HOST': 'www.-----.com',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
        'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
    }
}
Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    As you can see in the source code, Django makes havy use of psycopg2.extensions module. Further, the extensions module is oficially contained in psycopg2. So, what I think is that you have installed psycopg the wrong way.

    Here’s the right location of the install page: http://initd.org/psycopg/install/

    I recommend you to use virtualenv

    • 0