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Cannon
Cannon

Reputation: 2793

Django installation on OSX

OS : OS X 10.7.5 I have pyhton 3.3.2 installed under Apps folder and I use IDLE for python scripts. I used below command to install Django. 

pip install Django==1.5.2

After successful installation I see it installed under ~/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/

However when I use IDLE to test 

import django

I get below error:

>>> import django
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
    import django
ImportError: No module named 'django'

What am I missing ? This is the first time I am trying django installation.

As per suggestion, I installed virtualenv and tried 

sudo virtualenv -p /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/ my_virtualenv

It failed with below trace:

Running virtualenv with interpreter /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.10.1', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 780, in main
    popen = subprocess.Popen([interpreter, file] + sys.argv[1:], env=env)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 672, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1202, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

Seems like still its trying to install under 2.7 version.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4387

Answers (2)

Cannon
Cannon

Reputation: 2793

Here are the steps that resolved my issue:

Removed Python 3.3 completely from machine.

sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3
sudo rm -rf "/Applications/Python 3.3"
cd /usr/local/bin; 
ls -l . | grep '../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3' | awk '{print $9}' | xargs rm

And then setup the environment using guide to set Up Python and Install Django on Mac OS X.

Upvotes: 0

Julio
Julio

Reputation: 2523

You have a conflict between python 2.7 and 3.3.2. You installed django for python 2.7 and certainly tried to used it with python 3.3.2.

The best way to avoid this kind of problem is to use virtualenv:

$ sudo pip install virtualenv

Then:

$ virtualenv my_virtualenv

OR:

$ virtualenv -p <PATH TO PYTHON VERSION> my_virtualenv

Then: 

$ source my_virtualenv/bin/activate
$ pip install Django==1.5.2

This will install the good version of django in your virtualenv. You need to check if the python 3 version is available with pip.

Thanks to virtualanv, you will be able to save/freeze and install your environement on another machine:

$ pip freeze > requirement.txt
$ pip install -r requirement.txt

Upvotes: 5

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