Django installation on a Mac running Leopard

Question

Here's my problem. I have a mac with 2.5 installed & was using django 1.1 with it. I had no problems until I decided to upgrade python & django. I uninstalled django from my mac as per the djangoproject.com website recommends. I left python 2.5 on my mac as not to interfere with pre-installed mac programs. I put python 2.6 & 3.1 on my mac via mac ports. Python boots up fine in my mac & I can switch between versions very easily via terminal. I put django on my mac. This is where it's installed:

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py.

Python 2.6 is also set as python_select python26, python_select -s via macports terminal commands, Which makes it the system start up for python. I have absolutely no problem with python, it runs perfectly. When I go into the python2.6 interpreter & issue import django- print django.VERSION, I get 1, 2, 1, 'final', 0). So there should be a sym-link created for the latter. When I go to create a django-project from my system project folder via terminal, I keep getting this:

demetrius-fords-macbook-pro-17:django_projects demet8$ django-admin.py startproject demo Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py", line 2, in from django.core import management ImportError: No module named django.core.

I have tried everything from creating my own sim-link manually to other install solutions for django and I cannot create a django project from a system command of django-admin.py, nor can I test the installation version via $ django-admin.py --version. I can only check the django version from the interpreter as I stated earlier. Any suggestions? I am out of answers & frustrated @ this point!

Answer 1

Most likely you have more than one version of Django installed; note the path (/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py) in the error message. You may also not have your PATH environment variable set up correctly so that the MacPorts paths appear before /usr/local/bin (where you may have a link to a python.org python) and /usr/bin (where the Apple-supplied python is). Your PATH should like something like this:

$ echo $PATH
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin # and so forth

If not, you should modify the appropriate shell startup script, probably .bash_profile, to modify PATH permanently.

You can test whether it works by explicitly invoking the script with the MacPorts python:

$ /opt/local/bin/python2.6 /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py