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waffl
waffl

Reputation: 5511

Django 1.9 Tutorial Part 2: No module named 'polls.apps' when running python manage.py makemigrations polls

There are numerous similar questions here on SO, but they all seem to be for older versions, or are related to a typo.

In part 2 of the Django 1.9 tutorial, I am stuck at the initial migration for the polls app:

python manage.py makemigrations polls

When running this, I get the error: `ImportError: No module named 'polls.apps'

I am using Python 3.5.1 and Django 1.9.4

excerpt from mysite/settings.py

...
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'polls.apps.PollsConfig',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]
...

Folder structure:

.
├── db.sqlite3
├── manage.py
├── mysite
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── __init__.pyc
│   ├── __pycache__
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── settings.pyc
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── wsgi.py
└── polls
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── __pycache__
    ├── admin.py
    ├── models.py
    ├── tests.py
    ├── urls.py
    └── views.py

4 directories, 21 files

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8839

Answers (4)

Jaroslaw Piersa
Jaroslaw Piersa

Reputation: 1

Please verify which python do you use: python2 or python3.

$ python --version
Python 2.7.6
$ python3 --version
Python 3.4.3

After switching the alias to python3 and re-running the tutorial, I got the missing file polls/apps.py (which contains the class PollsConfig).

Upvotes: 0

Roy
Roy

Reputation: 1

yes! the settings.py file should contain...

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'polls',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
)

The tutorial is so frustrating to follow with errors and inexplicable statements: With Windows, you can't use TimeZone so just use the system timezone. Er,...how?? You just have to set it to None, i.e.:

TIME_ZONE = None  # for Windows!!  Was: 'UTC' for Chicago

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = False  ## just use Windows system time

Hope this helps someone.

Upvotes: 0

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 474001

You are missing the apps.py file (and the polls.migrations package also) which should have been generated on this step: Creating the Polls app. Please review to ensure you've completed that step correctly.

Upvotes: 7

rfrp
rfrp

Reputation: 166

What about if you replace 

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'polls.apps.PollsConfig',
    ...
]

by just

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'polls',
    ...
]

Upvotes: 5

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