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Apostolos
Apostolos

Reputation: 8101

how to import an existing django project to pycharm

I have the following directory tree

myproject
├── data
├── libs
└── wsgi
    ├── openshift
    └── static

openshift contains the settings file and the manage.py file. I want to user manage.py through pycharm but it won't work, nor the runserver command nor the startapp neither anything to be precice.

running startapp gives me the following errors

bash -cl "/usr/bin/python2.7 manage.py startapp quiz"
/usr/bin/python2.7: can't open file 'manage.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Process finished with exit code 2

running runserver it gives me the following

ImportError: Could not import settings 'openshift.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Is there an import error in the settings file?): No module named openshift.settings

Process finished with exit code 1

I have enabled django support and set wsig as django root project. Running manage.py from terminal works fine.

what am i doing wrong?

EDIT: running manage.py shell from pycharm also works EDIT2: I managed to get it working by following openshift's structure and making openshift the django project root folder, and some edits to the imports. Now everything works great

Upvotes: 13

Views: 28879

Answers (4)

IDEtoSATA
IDEtoSATA

Reputation: 13

PyCharm 2022.3.1 (Professional Edition)

Once you opened your project in PyCharm:

File -> Settings -> Languages & Frameworks -> Django -> Enable Django Support

  1. Set "Django project root" to your project's main folder.
  2. Point "Settings" to where the settings.py file is.
  3. Point "Manage script" to where the manage.py file is.
  4. "Folder pattern to track files" is set to "migrations" on new projects.

Before you apply the settings "Show structure" will be empty. It will get populated once you applay the settings and try opening it again.

Upvotes: 1

Neo Ko
Neo Ko

Reputation: 1405

I usually change the run configuration's working directory option.

You could type your working directory path into that field, then python will find the project's settings module

Upvotes: 0

Aidas Bendoraitis
Aidas Bendoraitis

Reputation: 4003

Open myproject as your project and then go to PyCharm -> Preferences... -> Django, Enable Django Support and then choose your Django project root, settings file and manage script.

Upvotes: 17

Jay Modi
Jay Modi

Reputation: 3321

just open pycharm and in file menu select open option. Then choose your directory and done..!

If you have problem with using command line then you should try building a new project from pycharm itself.

Upvotes: 3

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