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Randy Tang
Randy Tang

Reputation: 4353

Django: how to set the path for the environ variable "DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"

In Django, I used to write populating scripts and put them in the project root directory. For example,

mysite/
    mysite/
    manage.py
    populateA.py

The first few lines of populateA.py:

import os
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'mysite.settings')
import django
django.setup()

...

As there are more and more populating scripts, I would like to move them to another package populate:

mysite/
    mysite/
    manage.py
    populate/
        __init__.py
        populateA.py
        populateB.py
        populateC.py
        ...

However, when I run the populating scripts (python populateA.py), I got the error message: ImportError: No module named 'mysite'. How to properly set the path for DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 138

Answers (1)

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 798764

Since populate is already a module, run its submodules.

python -m populate.populateA

Upvotes: 1

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