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Jonas Vandermosten
Jonas Vandermosten

Reputation: 163

Changing the virtualenv for the terminal in pycharm

I was postponing this question since i am not sure this is the right place to ask it. But i don't find a clear answer either.

I am running pycharm 2018.1.4, on windows and it seems that i can't change the virtual env that running in the terminal in pycharm. When i check the python version in the terminal i get version 2.7.3, for the project interpreter i have python 3.6 and for my run configurations i have the same 3.6 interpreter. There are no problems running the development server or anything like that, just in the terminal i can't run the manage.py script without getting following.

ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual environment?

I understand the error, i just dont get why it is using that virtuals env instead of the one configured as project interpreter. Anyone else stumbled upon this problem?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2394

Answers (3)

devesh
devesh

Reputation: 668

  1. In Pycharm go to project setting,then go to project interpreter make sure that you have your required python virtual environment (which I think you did it already)
  2. Under same selected environment, make sure that you have installed Django

  3. Of course, if there is the dependency on Django, you can just type

    pip install django

Upvotes: 0

Arun T
Arun T

Reputation: 1610

It can be due to various reasons, You can try the following command once the virtualenv is activated

python --version

If it shows python 2.7 as the version then it means in your system you have given python command to respond to the 2.7 version. Its more like a name tag.

Try python3 --version and it should give you back "Python 3.6".

If that's the case, then use python3 manage.py runserver and it should work perfectly

Upvotes: 0

pybuche
pybuche

Reputation: 74

As far as i know, Pycharm's terminal is not bound to Project Interpreter and the IDE related features. To make it work, you'll have to manually activate your virtualenv in the terminal.

Upvotes: 1

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