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chris56tv
chris56tv

Reputation: 167

How to let my computer know I want to use python 3 now?

I have a mac and python 2.something installed. I recently installed python3 and pip3. Then I tried running the following commands:

pip3 install django==2.2

django-admin startproject myProject

cd myProject

everything worked, but when I run 

python3 manage.py runserver

it complains

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in main
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 21, in <module>
    main()
  File "manage.py", line 16, in main
    ) from exc
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?

is my computer still thinking in the old version? I am not familiar with "environment variables" do I need to modify it? (I am asking cause I also read that it can be unsafe to modify that stuff)

Also, when I run 

python --version

it gives me 2.7

however I can still run .py files using "python3" command

Upvotes: 2

Views: 143

Answers (2)

ruohola
ruohola

Reputation: 24038

If you don't want to use a virtual environment. I would suggest not trying to substitute python with python3 just yet, since you might still have programs that depend on Python 2.

Instead, you can try to install django with the command:

python3 -m pip install django==2.2

Upvotes: 2

Guilherme Fran&#231;a de Oliveira
Guilherme Fran&#231;a de Oliveira

Reputation: 160

try using first python3 -m pip install django

and then run the command python3 manage.py runserver

looks like you are installing django on Python 2

Upvotes: 4

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