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Reputation: 51

Python/django : Cannot import GeoIP

I cannot import GeoIP in django. I searched and tested this error two days, but still could not know problem.

Surely, I installed GeoDjango. I'm on MacOS 10.8

following is log by tested by django shell

from django.contrib.gis import geoip

module 'django.contrib.gis.geoip' from '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geoip/__init__.pyc'

it works. even I could find geoip class at Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geoip/base.py

from django.contrib.gis.geoip import geoip 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
ImportError: cannot import name geoip

I also add django.contrib.gis to setting.py. Even I could find geoip class at eclipse shortcut.

anyway, I tested one more thing in django shell.

from django.contrib.gis.geoip.base import GeoIP

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geoip/base.py", line 6, in 
    from django.contrib.gis.geoip.libgeoip import GEOIP_SETTINGS
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geoip/libgeoip.py", line 22, in 
    if lib_path is None: raise GeoIPException('Could not find the GeoIP library (tried "%s"). '
NameError: name 'GeoIPException' is not defined

What I missing?

Is there any way to test my error?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3912

Answers (3)

user20573670
user20573670

Reputation: 1

The error is caused by moving the virtual environment folder.

The solution is to create the environment again and reinstall the pygeoip library.

Upvotes: 0

Marthanda Anand
Marthanda Anand

Reputation: 196

Previously i was facing this issue : from django.contrib.gis.geoip import GeoIP ImportError: cannot import name GeoIP

which is solved when i install this package.

yum install GeoIP-devel -y

Upvotes: 1

Nathan Villaescusa
Nathan Villaescusa

Reputation: 17659

It appears you need to install a C library in order to use GeoIP.

Here is a snippet from the file that is throwing that error.

# The shared library for the GeoIP C API.  May be downloaded
#  from http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/
if lib_path:
    lib_name = None
else:
    # TODO: Is this really the library name for Windows?
    lib_name = 'GeoIP'

Once you have it installed somewhere you need to reference it in your settings.py

GEOIP_LIBRARY_PATH = '/whatever'

The library was trying to tell you this, but it seems that there is a bug that prevents it from raising the correct error. https://github.com/django/django/pull/103

Upvotes: 1

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